About 26.6 MPG on our '06 MCS with mixed city/highway driving. The computer says our average speed is 28 MPH,

 

'04 MCS
New plugs, cai + pulley mod, catback exhaust
27-28mpg mixed driving - hoping for better...

 

We've averaged 32-33 mpg with mixed driving for the nearly four years and 34k miles we've had our '05 Cooper. Our high has been 41.5 mpg on a trip a couple of years ago, and we've only had 3 or 4 tanks below 30 mpg since we bought the car.

 

26mpg - I cannot get any way above 26 - since I just cannot drive slow once I am behind the wheel of my 06mcs.

 

24.5 mpg average currently... pretty impressive considering it's exactly twice the size of your guy's engines! I love BMW (MINI's included!), they're great at what they do.

 

OK, if we're not sticking with MINI's, my husband averages 28 mpg with his mostly highway driving '98 Vette - 1200 rpm in 6th gear at 60 mph gets good mpg's!

I have him beat (slightly) in my MINI at 28.5, but with more stop and go city driving than him.

 

That's very impressive! I've managed around 30 mpg on highway only driving, but it was a pretty boring affair, if you know what I mean... cruise control on the whole time.

Back on topic! I just felt the need to interject with my mileage on my favorite forum.

 

HEY, THIS IS A MINIS ONLY DISCUSSION< M3s GO AWAY!!!!!!!

JP, i tried to get some dude driving ur body style m3 to play on the highway but no go, he was boring.

I just got my alignment done I havnt gone through a tank of gas yet but so far i think its been alot better than it was, but only on the first quarter of a tank so who knows?

 

33 on my 02 JustaCooper; 30 on my 02 MCS, if you ignore track days where it's somewhere in the teens (I try not to look!).

 

I never got above 28 mpg with my 05 MCS (road trip), and it was more often 24-26 mpg for my everyday commute - mixed hwy/city drive.

My 06 Cabrio (non-S) is getting about 31 mpg. DISCLAIMER: I am going by the OBC; I'm not @nal enough to track it manually.

 

Just got back with my 2nd new MINI S , and my average was 36. dropped to 33 when I stopped at the dragon for a day...he he...here in ohio, where i currently call home, my average is 33. I try to drive smart...sometimes .. love this car !!

 

oh sorry, I have an 04 MINI S

 

401 miles on the last tankful. Nice...

 

06 MCS. My onboard computer says 26.7mpgs. I've seen as high as 28 average but i was really going easy on it on the freeway. BTW, the only engine mod I have so far is Dinan stage 1 programming.

As mods go, did anyone notice a decrease in mileage after adding an intake? Im thinking of that next.

 

if we are doing mainly in-honolulu driving, we get about 27 or 28 mpg. we find that when we supplement our neccesity driving with some out-of-honolulu cruising during lower traffic hours (like visiting his mom, who lives on the north shore), the gas mileage goes up to about 33.

edit: whoops! just realized this was on the 1st gen forum. mea culpa!

 

28mpg avg, driving like a crazy person. good mix of highway/city.
Mods : 15%, cai, catback, colder plugs, and RMW tune.

 

12.6 mpg/ but I am on the gas - all the time. I used to think something was wrong with the car (see previous posts), but it was me. The service manager took me out in my '06 MCS JCW, and showed me how to drive like his grandmother. Immediately the mpg shot up to 29. But I don't want to drive my Cooper like that, so I get 12.5.

 

Do you have lead weights on your right foot? I can't even get that low when I'm at the track!

 

05MCS 30-31

cough granny shifting cough cough

 

2006 MC with a manual 5-speed...,, 37.5 combined. But then Kansas City is about the most open-road metropolitain area in the United States. I'm getting north of 450 miles on a tank, but alas a tank of gas costs a whole lot more than $20, more on the order of $33 or somthing like that. I switched to regular after 50k miles (had always burned premium before that) with no noticable affect on gas mileage, and only a negligable affect on performance. The only time I miss the premium gas is accelrating uphill on an on-ramp; ever so small differnce in acceleration, but yes, noticable.

 

05 Manual MCS: I average 23-24 MPG mixed driving. Best I have ever done is 33 MPG strictly freeway with no grades. I drove it a week without the Dinan Stage 4 software and gained about 2 MPG's, but I prefer the extra "pep" with the software

Oh and I have stock sized tires. Going just a bit wider would probably drop me at least another MPG.

 

I keep a record of all my gas purchases and fill up every time I fuel up. My average mileage is around 32 mpg. Last week on the way back from the beach I averaged 39.9 mpg! To say the least I was shocked because the driving was mixed highway and small communities. My driving style is 5 - 10 miles per hour above posted.

2004 MCS

 

ive been getting 23.5 city lately

 

My 2003 MC R50 consistently gets 34mpg as long as I use Conoco Premium.

 

2003 MCS all city 20MPG
2009 Saturn Outlook all city 14MPG
2004 GTO all city 9MPG actually it 9.7 but it's still bad.

All three show an avg of 15MPH.