V6 MPG

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fatherjack2002
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V6 MPG

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Hi folks, hope everyone's well,
I've just done a round trip of 360miles From Lincoln to Newcastle at the weekend, mostly A1/Motorway including about 25 miles urban driving .
Maintaining an average of 90mph on motorways and including urban the car returned 26.4 mpg.
Is this an average overall return ? if so i'm pretty pleased with :) :) :)
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... and that would be a V6 what? Xantia, XM, C5 1, 2, X7?...
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oops :oops: :oops: :oops: V6 Xantia
1995 Xantia VSX 1.9 TD, RIP
N*ssan Pr*mera . HATING EVERY MILE
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An AVERAGE of 90mph on motorways ... shame on you!

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Traveling both ways at around 3am nothing else around :)
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Hope you had speed camera warning somehow.
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... and that there were no SPECS cameras with ANPR!
24 MPG seems to be the figure quoted by parkers for the the 3.0 V6 - so would seem you could get better at Sunday driving speeds!
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That's not bad economy Paul

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My "style" of driving is giving me 22mpg :).....am I naughty ?
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I would have expected about 28 mpg for motorway driving at 90 mph, but there are lots of unknown variables. It is anyway good to see your V6 being used.
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Our XM 2.5TD recently completed 5000km driving from Malaga to Arran/Kintyre, and back.
From S to N of Spain (Malaga to Santander) average speed was 61mph, much of it done at the legal limit of 120km/h (75mph) and a bit.
Average for whole trip was 43mpg.
Last time I looked at twenty-something was P6 V8. Even my 1935 Rover 10 managed 24mpg average!
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I averaged 27mpg over my short ownership of 2 V6 Xantias and I'm not known for hanging about..

I averaged 82mph and 39mpg in a C5 110HDi on a trip to Brussels and back from Reading.

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yikes.
my x7 had 20 L put in on Saturday (nearing the end of reserve) , and I did 204 miles (very near end of reserve today!) ..

*all at boring sub 70 speeds, half on motorways and the rest carefully on A/B roads.*

*doing a Peter :rofl2:

I think that works out at 46mpg .. I would have thought the V6 petrol xant would have been a bit better but I guess wind resistance goes up exponentially ..I cant remember my V6, was a few years ago.
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Stickyfinger wrote:My "style" of driving is giving me 22mpg :).....am I naughty ?
Must be, you have the only manual one. I thought you'd get the highest economy here.
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26 Mpg would bankrupt me! Still, the V6 is a petrol engine...

I typically get 5.6l /100km (around 50 Mpg) out of my 1.6 Hdi 'X7' C5 on French motorways staying at or below the legal limit (130 km/h - 80 Mph) and 5.2 - 5.3 l / 100km (54 Mpg) on UK motorways staying at or below the legal limit. I can average 4.6l /100km on a flat rural run (60 Mpg) but short runs and going up and down hills does kill the consumption, which is a pain seeing I am the kid's taxi service and live at the top of a big hill. Even so, I have still managed to average 5.7 l/100 km (49.6 mpg) over the last 10,000km. That's still 8 Mpg less than the average used to be for my old Fiat 1.9 JTD Weekend estate...
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