I can join this club finally! 2011 MCS.





And I probably had another 10 miles in it.

 

Best I have seen to date is just over 400 at the fill up. But Porthos said it best " us S drivers its a little harder". And to Porthos you have way more control then I do, I like the boost.

 

I thought I had my best chance at 500 miles recently, we hired a diesel MINI in France. We only managed 390 miles though, it only has the 40l (10.5 us gal) tank. With the US sized tank I might have just managed 500. We got up to 43.6 mpg (US) out of it.

 

I don't want to burst your bubble of happiness but be careful because the manual states that you shouldn't go below 30 miles left on the tank because it can cause engine failure. But good job, I got 525 at one point...slowest driving EVER.

 

I was in the mountains of North Carolina. Not a lot of choice.

 

Yeah but it is because of sucking stuff off out out of the botoom of the tank and the fact that you would have to reprime the system.

 

Got to two carrots at 611 miles, but then it went back to three carrots. Finally went back to two at 617 miles. I filled it today at 640.1 miles, and put 12.887 gallons in. If I had managed 5 more miles, I would have hit 50 MPG for the tank!!

Maybe next time.

 

Filled up in Grinnell, IA on Tuesday, July 10, coming home from MTTS.

Those first few hundred miles on Iowa two-lanes at 60-65 set me up for a great tankful!

Got this photo today...readout showing another 31 miles left...calculated 38.9 mpg for this tank!

 

Filled at 639 miles, just before my vacation. Averaged 51 MPG on that tank!

 

Wowza! Incredible. Must be the Ice Blue...

 

Not exactly, running the tank low repeatedly will wear on the electric fuel pump - it's cooled buy the fuel.

 

I was able to break 600 miles in my last tank, completed today:
- 8/9-23/2012, mostly my 22 mile one way commute that is 2/3 highway. For this tank I mostly kept it below 65 mph, often 62 or 63 on the highway portion. Warm weather is improving fuel economy, I believe. Tire pressure ~38 psi (cannot tell if that slighter higher pressure matters).
- 607.9 miles, computer said 13 miles left.
- computer said 46.7 mpg.
- Filled it with 13.98 gallons (more than stated capacity! I did not overfill.) So measured fuel economy this tank is 43.5 mpg.
- not as good as my former Insight gen1 (59 mpg overall average), but way more fun! And if I drive more normally (i.e., fun) I am still getting around 40 mpg.

So back to the fun driving!

Duane.
2012 Justa SOB

 

It is still pulling the same amount of fuel regardless of how muc hi si n the tank.

 

It pulls in the same amount of fuel, true. The "excess" is dumped back into the tank, generally at a different spot than the fuel pump pickup lives in. The fuel going through the pump helps to cool it, and if there isn't much fuel in there it will run the same fuel through over and over again, so there is a risk of it heating up and not cooling the pump as well.

I don't think it's a big risk, myself. But I don't constantly drive around with the carrots red and the low fuel warning on.

BTW, my next tank was 17 miles short of being a 50 MPG tank. Still over 600 miles, though!

For about the first third of this tank, the OBC was telling me I could go 800 miles on this one. (Adding the miles-to-empty to the trip odometer I reset when I filled the tank.)

I'm now at about 560 miles, and on three carrots. I don't know if I'll make it to 600 before the carrots go red, but it probably will be close to there.

 

5-600+ miles wow

I was pretty happy with 469 miles /13.4 gallons on my 12 MCS JCW

 

400 is a lot on a 1st gen? I routinely hit 450 by the time I fill it and my "range" says I have ~40 miles left at that point...

 

I didn't get down to the "two red carrots" point. The wife and I took a small trip to the coast, and I wasn't willing to run it down all the way while on a trip through the mountains.

Got just over 600 miles; if I had gone about three miles further I would have hit 50 MPG.

 

Just joined the 500 mile club this past weekend. Was up in Stowe, VT for the annual British Invasion car show, and from all the driving around Route 100, Route 108, and a trip to Burlington, I filled up when the trip meter showed 508.9. It was 40.92 mpg for that tank. Pics to follow.

 

Winnie made the club! A 2,000 mile round trip from San Diego to Boise. Lots of flat highway driving. If the speed limit hadn't been 75-80, she would have repeated the 500 mi/tank, but going 65 there makes people tailgate you and then dart around you and that's not worth it.

 

Finally downloaded the image lol.

 

FYI: I hate everyone in this thread lol I average about 330-350 miles on my Cooper S.. I try to drive as conservative as the mean streets of Philadelphia allow and thats the most I've gotten :(

 

i have not actually gone over 500/tank yet BUT ...

i had to make a ~400 mile parts run

55mph on cruise, 411 miles round trip, 9.8 gals burned (41.9 mpg), the miles til empty showed 104 miles to go when i filled up

not bad for a cms all4!

next parts run i will "extend" the trip and get into the club!

scott

 

I'm still getting just over 600 before the two red carrots show up. And the last two tanks have been just a few miles short of averaging 50 MPG...

 

I am usually going around 70 or better on the highway and can get close to 500 but havent hit it yet. Then again I drive like I stole it .

 

You guys are crazy. On my 09 clubman S I'm happy to get 400 miles on a tank with 80% highway. I guess AC all the time does not help, but its still beyond my comprehension how you manage to do 500 mi on a tank.