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For your downtown Honolulu drives; tire pressure increase will not make much change.

No idea what 'profile' EPA uses to calculate 'City' mileage, but it can vary by a huge amount,
depending on time spent waiting at 'Red Lights'.

If you know your route and that you are in for a two (or more) minute wait at an intersection,
you could shut off and make a difference (at cost of Air Conditioning cooling).

You mentioned using 'Reset' "...once at 200 miles..."; would serve you better to 'Reset' for every trip,
if you want to use the feature to improve your mpg's.

(For 'long-term' watch on mpg; it is much more accurate to just keep track of fuel added and miles driven.)

 

Road trip from St. Louis to the Atlanta area today. With highway speeds of 75-80 MPH I got 33 MPG. When I slowed it down to 65-70 I could get around 36-37 MPG.

 

Just turned 6000 miles on my 08 MCS 6 speed manual. Been averaging 32 mpg since the start. Doesn't seem to matter if it's city or highway. It seems once you pass the 80 mph average out on roads you can open her up on, it drops a little. So What? Who Cares! It's a blast!!!!

The only thing I can say, it doesn't seem to matter what octane I've used, the milage is about the same. But since switching to 91 octane like I was advised to do by you all at NAM about a month ago, the exhaust sounds much deeper and throaty, and a little better acceleration.

 

I get 29-30 MPG in the city and 38 MPG at 70 MPH on the freeway here in Atlanta. I get 40 MPG if I drive 65 MPH on the freeway.

I drive a non-S Cooper with 205/55-16 General Exclaim UHP tires, which are top rated for low rolling resistance. I was getting 26/36 with the standard 155/75-15 tires (or whatever size they were).

 

1650 miles on my 09 MCS manual. Been averaging 29 combined on half city & half highway (70 - 80 mostly).

 

I usually find i get about 28mpg as I drive to work in my MC (all city driving). One time i tried to drive like a hypermiler for a whole tank of gas and was able to get 32mpg on the same route. It was tortuous not to push the car to the fun levels. This is based on hand calculations as i don't have an OBC. My wife's MCC has the OBC which told me we got 40mpg on a mostly freeway drive.

 

now with over 24k miles and with all my mods, plus I drive pretty quick and I average just over 30mpg

 

2008 MCS w/ 6-speed, sport button engaged. About 8000 miles or so. 33 psi on all tires (1-2 passengers proper setting). Had MINI do an oil change at 2000 miles (paid for it but wanted it done to get all early engine wear-in particles entirely out of it. I would have preferred to do it at 1200 but just didn't get around to it. I'm using regular unleaded (87 octane) now - winter months in NJ. But otherwise I use Unleaded Plus (89 octane). And no I don't have issues w/ knocks etc - I'm not revving hard enough for the engine compression to pre-ignite the gas.

I'll get 35-36 or so on long highway trips (250-300 miles each way), and I'm doing 74-75 most of the time, with brief spurts up to 90. Of course I'm keeping it in 6th gear pretty much constantly.

Under more normal conditions, some local trips, using some highway and backroads, where my average speed is more like 50 or so - I can get 38+ mpg pretty easily. Essentially I'm getting 500+ miles to the tank. Getting 520 or so is easily done unless I've got those long trips from NJ to upstate NY - and then I'd rather get there a bit faster than save a few gallons.

The best I ever got on a tank was about 44-45 but I was definitely trying to take it easy just to see what was possible. I'm happy enough getting 37-38 regularly, especially knowing that I can punch it anytime I need for a quick pass.

Jeff

 

Mine is slightly dropping as the weather in AZ starts chilly .Middle of november OBC showed 41.2 . Now its reading 40.5 and I'm at 8K for mileage

 

Well, I got caught up on the hype and good reviews on Amazon.com and got a set of the E3 Spark Plugs E3.56. My gf 2005 MC went from 31.7 mpg to 29.4 mpg (after 2 weeks of regular driving). Weird. I guess it's just a hype and I should have stuck w/ the OEM or NGK.

oh well.

 

my 2003 mc cvt is averaging 23mpg in city driving. on hwy 75-80mph it gets 26mpg. not great but i love the mini.

 

If I drive into town to run errands (about 25 miles round trip) I get about 30 mpg when measured at the bottom of my driveway. If measured at the top, it is about 28 mpg.

Freeway and highway driving to San Jose is around 32 to 34 mpg, depending on traffic and air conditioner.

 

Now just over 8000 miles. I've never reset the computer average MPG display since new, which now reads 38.8 with a mix of highway, suburban and urban driving. Admittedly I drive conservatively and keep reasonably close to speed limits, no burn-out starts, etc. I recognize that the computer is probably not dead on, but I'm still impressed....and even driving conservatively, it's a fun car.

 

Just over 3200 miles (approx. 30% hwy) and I'm getting 31.3 mpg.

 

Just past break-in period.
According to OBC, I'm getting 44 mpg.
Driving 08 MCS and mostly highway driving.

I love my MINI!!!

 

I wouldn't trust the OBC, its about 5%-10% over optimisitic when its telling you the right thing. With numbers like that I'd suspect its working in imperial gallons (check its language setting is not British), and its really getting around 32 mpg (still a very respectable number). The only way to know for sure is to do a hand calculation. (I got the habit of obsessively noting fuel consumption from my Dad, its quite a handy thing to do.)

Tristan is currently averaging 27.3 mpg, he managed 33.7 mpg (his best ever) on a leisurely drive to LA (averaging 62mph) and 30.1 mpg on a not so leisurely drive back (averaging 72mph).

Shawn on the other hand is averaging 27.1 mpg and his best is 33.8 on another trip to LA.

I'm not seeing any appreciable difference in the MPG between MC and MCS which is interesting, the MCS may be slightly economical the way I drive.

 

hmmm...

After filling up the tank (which is about 13-14 gal capacity), drove 615 miles round trip without filling up again on my 08 MCS....and I did that twice within 2 months...so you do the math.

 

Actually many have reported here that it's within 1 mpg. So far every fill up the OBC (which I reset at each fillup) has been within 1 or dead on with the manual calculations.

This varies from car to car I guess since many have also posted about it being optimistic.

 

I am not sure how all of you get such high mileage. I get about 27-28 avg city/highway mix hand calculated. The computer usually displays about 29mpg

 

I get 33.5 mpg on my MC @ 80 mph highway.

When I had an MCS loaner I was getting 25.5 mpg @ 80 mph highway.

 

25mpg at 80 all highway seems a bit low. I average (hand computed) 23-27mpg for combined city/highway driving (OBC states 25.1 at the moment). Perhaps it is because I'm at sea level...

 

I don't think mine has ever been within 3, and usually is about 5 mpg off.

 

Sea Level would actually give you better gas mileage then a higher altitude. That is pretty low since I get 27-32 in heavy stop and go traffic with my MCSa and I get 38-39 on the hwy constant 78mph

 

I just got 31 MPG for my last tank, which is the highest I've averaged! It's just so hard to be frugal in this car.