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[Sulla]

Evening Gents

I write this from a Premier Inn somewhere north of Newcastle.

I am currently half way through a 775 mile round trip from Gatwick to Newcastle via Birmingham and Huddersfield. I have done 440 miles, 335 left to go and the fuel gauge has just gone below the 3/4 mark. I have driven most of the way between 65 and 70 mph (I usually do the motorways at 90 mph because the Xant cruises so well at this speed, so I have been quite controlled). The most I have managed out of a tank is 721 miles before the fuel warning light came on.

I would really like to do the trip on one tank so whats the most you guys have got out of a Xantia 2.0 8v HDi engine driven sensibly?

Ta

Dan

[Peter.N.]

I regularly get over 60 mpg from my 406 on long journeys at about 60mph, it was reading 60.1 when we returned from Scotland last year but I used to get over 50mpg on the same journey from my 2.1 XM. The worst consumption is from my 2.2 Hdi C5 that struggles to make 50 mpg.

I think you could make 1000 miles on a tank, the XM would do 900+ and the 406 will do over 1000.

Peter

[Xaccers]

I got 816 miles out of a full tank in a 1.9TD so 800 miles in a HDI should be a doddle.

[Rhothgar]

I've had 870 miles on a 1.9TD! Wish I could get that driving around town.

[Sulla]

Sounds like if I stick to the 65 mph again on the way down I should do it with plenty to spare!

[Andy F]

I once attempted Gloucester to Paris return in my 1.9td. I refilled in Dover and still had 11 litres left in so could have made it home again if id been careful. Pity I bottled it but it was Sunday evening and I wasn't sure how much was in there until I brimmed it. I wasn't hanging around either, if only the M4/5 was like the French motorways!

Andy

[CitroJim]

My HDi did 58mpg on a round-trip between Milton Keynes and Aberystwyth yesterday so 800 miles from a tank is very doable..

The road between Welshpool and Aber is not exactly one best suited to economy driving (lots of hilly bits, corners and slow Welsh Drivers) and I reckon if it was flat motorway all the way I'd have seen even better economy...

[Sulla]

What was your average speed Jim?

[CitroJim]

What was your average speed Jim?

On the motorways, between about 65 and 70 (I'm not a fast driver) and on the road between Welshpool and Aber between 40 and 60 I guess. That road really does not offer a lot of scope for rapid progress... Fast it's not but it is very scenic

[Sulla]

Cool, I will tackle the rest of the trip with a bit of reassurance now. If I can average 52 mpg then I will make it with ease. I reckon I am currently nudging 60 mpg though so the old girl could go a lot further.

I really do love this car. A bit too much according to my wife.

[Peter.N.]

A man after my own heart Jim only my speed is nearer 60 mph. On a trip form here to Minehead, dreadful road all 40 and 50 mph but no traffic this day, 69 mpg when I arrived in the town, that had dropped to 66 by the time I found the place I was going to and the average for the entire journey was about 62.

Peter

[jacksun1987]

Hers a intresting one. Say you had my xantia 1.9td. Which has nothing in it. No electric windows at the frount and back. No sunroof no abs no aircon Vs a higher spec modle with all the goodies in. Should mine do more mpg. Or wouldnt it make any differnce

[Xaccers]

Hers a intresting one. Say you had my Xantia 1.9td. Which has nothing in it. No electric windows at the frount and back. No sunroof no abs no aircon Vs a higher spec modle with all the goodies in. Should mine do more mpg. Or wouldnt it make any differnce

Say you had a robot driving it so it was identically driven to other higher spec Xantias, and the pumps were all the same, bhp all the same etc, then yours should be marginally better due to the lower weight and lower drag of not having A/C
In reality any difference would probably be unnoticeable.

[Sulla]

Going by my experience of having owned both the 1.9 td and the 2.0 Hdi, I personally think the difference in engine is too great to be overcome by having less electric gizmos on the 1.9.

I used to get 450 - 500 miles out of a full tank on the 1.9 (I drive fast), when I changed to the HDi I straight away got 650 miles, driving exactly the same, which is a massive difference.

Unless my 1.9 was a bit rubbish....

[Stepto1]

Guys, can I just ask, how are you working out your mpg figures?

My speedo and odometer in my Xantia HDI 110 over read by 10%, as do most cars.

This means when you think you're doing 7Omph, you're not. You're doing about 63mph.

And when your trip counter says you've done 800miles, you haven't. You've done 720miles.

I personally think that anything between 40 and 50 mpg is a decent figure for a car from the 90's

I drove from Plymouth to Nottingham the other day and used exactly £40 of fuel. I know this as my tank showed half full, I put £40 in and at the end of the trip it was back to half. I drove at 80-85mph as indicated by the GPS. This shows as 2800 rpm in 5th. This worked out as 43mpg.

60mpg? Most car firms would love to make a big, heavy four door car that could do that. But they can't.