R56 Significant increase in mileage for 07's?!?
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We won't be getting any road tests until the cars are delivered. So everyone has to believe what the factory tells them.
Auto Express Weekly (it may be a magazine but it arrives in my email) features the 2007 MINI in the latest issue. It states that BMW claims the 2007 gets 12% better gas mileage than the current series. I hope so. The current's gas mileage is the only thing I don't like about anotherwise delightful car.
Auto Express Weekly (it may be a magazine but it arrives in my email) features the 2007 MINI in the latest issue. It states that BMW claims the 2007 gets 12% better gas mileage than the current series. I hope so. The current's gas mileage is the only thing I don't like about anotherwise delightful car.
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MPG + Turbo
I had a 2004 WRX wagon for a while which is turbocharged, and with my experience reading about and owning a turbo engine would lead me to believe that the '07 you'll be able to choose your gas mileage.
If you're putting your foot in it constantly the car will drink. Plain and simple. I was thinking about eventually getting a 4dr 2.0t GTI for my wife, and what I've read with those seems to also indicate that the gas mileage is directly related to how you drive. The '04 wrx I had was this way as well. If I babied it I could get high 20s regularly, but if I drove like I usually drive I'd get about 21mpg.
The V8 S4 I have currently gets 15mpg mixed driving and 20mpg highway. No matter what you do. It is always the same.
So yeah I hope the new MCS has some better savings. I am guessing BMW has had this in mind because who wouldn't want to have a little and efficient sports car like the mini? It is definitely in their best interests from a marketing standpoint to make sure this is a reality.
If you're putting your foot in it constantly the car will drink. Plain and simple. I was thinking about eventually getting a 4dr 2.0t GTI for my wife, and what I've read with those seems to also indicate that the gas mileage is directly related to how you drive. The '04 wrx I had was this way as well. If I babied it I could get high 20s regularly, but if I drove like I usually drive I'd get about 21mpg.
The V8 S4 I have currently gets 15mpg mixed driving and 20mpg highway. No matter what you do. It is always the same.
So yeah I hope the new MCS has some better savings. I am guessing BMW has had this in mind because who wouldn't want to have a little and efficient sports car like the mini? It is definitely in their best interests from a marketing standpoint to make sure this is a reality.
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I doubt the MCS will go up THAT much... I mean, you are sacrifcing the mileage for the increased HP, etc... On motoring file, it said the MC was going to get around 40mpg highway, which isn't really that much more than now... I'm thinking where I read 'at least 47mpg' may have been in Imperial Gallons...
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I know when my wife was looking at a volvo, both the NA model and the turbo were rated at the same MPG, so I assumed that the cooper and cooper S should be rated very close to, if not the same. As I really don't need to say.. The turbo eliminates the parasitic drag of the supercharger, so provided you can keep your foot out of it, the cooper and S should be able to attain very similar; if not the same mpg. Last I knew, the current cooper was rated 36 and the S was rated 32. 4mpg increase, while nice, is hard to get excited over, now if they were able to get it to 47mpg, I'd be getting in line to replace my '03.
With current gas prices, whichever auto company pulls their head out of their heiny and brings a car to market that is inline with european and other world wide consumption standards is going to make a killing. I just wish I could afford one of these...
http://www.teslamotors.com
With current gas prices, whichever auto company pulls their head out of their heiny and brings a car to market that is inline with european and other world wide consumption standards is going to make a killing. I just wish I could afford one of these...
http://www.teslamotors.com
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Originally Posted by fjork_duf
I had a 2004 WRX wagon for a while which is turbocharged, and with my experience reading about and owning a turbo engine would lead me to believe that the '07 you'll be able to choose your gas mileage.
If you're putting your foot in it constantly the car will drink. Plain and simple. I was thinking about eventually getting a 4dr 2.0t GTI for my wife, and what I've read with those seems to also indicate that the gas mileage is directly related to how you drive. The '04 wrx I had was this way as well. If I babied it I could get high 20s regularly, but if I drove like I usually drive I'd get about 21mpg.
The V8 S4 I have currently gets 15mpg mixed driving and 20mpg highway. No matter what you do. It is always the same.
So yeah I hope the new MCS has some better savings. I am guessing BMW has had this in mind because who wouldn't want to have a little and efficient sports car like the mini? It is definitely in their best interests from a marketing standpoint to make sure this is a reality.
If you're putting your foot in it constantly the car will drink. Plain and simple. I was thinking about eventually getting a 4dr 2.0t GTI for my wife, and what I've read with those seems to also indicate that the gas mileage is directly related to how you drive. The '04 wrx I had was this way as well. If I babied it I could get high 20s regularly, but if I drove like I usually drive I'd get about 21mpg.
The V8 S4 I have currently gets 15mpg mixed driving and 20mpg highway. No matter what you do. It is always the same.
So yeah I hope the new MCS has some better savings. I am guessing BMW has had this in mind because who wouldn't want to have a little and efficient sports car like the mini? It is definitely in their best interests from a marketing standpoint to make sure this is a reality.
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Whoa MPG specs ARE up but it's in L/100Km. I have a speadsheet a home that does the conversion but if someone has some time lets post them.
http://www.mini.com/com/en/general/homepage/index.jsp
Before Edit:
Dave posted the conversion on this other thread that links to an unofficial tech specs page. It appears to be listing the MC off a MCS link.
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=76393
31.7 mpg UK/1.2 = 26.4 mpg US (city)
49.6 mpg UK/1.2 = 41 mpg US (highway)
40.9 mpg UK/1.2 = 34 mpg US (combined)
MPG would have been my only buyers remorse issue for my '06 MC but if this is close to accurate, it's not much better and actually worse in the city.
http://www.mini.com/com/en/general/homepage/index.jsp
Before Edit:
Dave posted the conversion on this other thread that links to an unofficial tech specs page. It appears to be listing the MC off a MCS link.
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=76393
31.7 mpg UK/1.2 = 26.4 mpg US (city)
49.6 mpg UK/1.2 = 41 mpg US (highway)
40.9 mpg UK/1.2 = 34 mpg US (combined)
MPG would have been my only buyers remorse issue for my '06 MC but if this is close to accurate, it's not much better and actually worse in the city.
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Originally Posted by Crusoe
Whoa MPG specs ARE up but it's in L/100Km. I have a speadsheet a home that does the conversion but if someone has some time lets post them.
http://www.mini.com/com/en/general/homepage/index.jsp
Before Edit:
Dave posted the conversion on this other thread that links to an unofficial tech specs page. It appears to be listing the MC off a MCS link.
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=76393
31.7 mpg UK/1.2 = 26.4 mpg US (city)
49.6 mpg UK/1.2 = 41 mpg US (highway)
40.9 mpg UK/1.2 = 34 mpg US (combined)
MPG would have been my only buyers remorse issue for my '06 MC but if this is close to accurate, it's not much better and actually worse in the city.
http://www.mini.com/com/en/general/homepage/index.jsp
Before Edit:
Dave posted the conversion on this other thread that links to an unofficial tech specs page. It appears to be listing the MC off a MCS link.
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ad.php?t=76393
31.7 mpg UK/1.2 = 26.4 mpg US (city)
49.6 mpg UK/1.2 = 41 mpg US (highway)
40.9 mpg UK/1.2 = 34 mpg US (combined)
MPG would have been my only buyers remorse issue for my '06 MC but if this is close to accurate, it's not much better and actually worse in the city.
MINI Cooper
Fuel Consumption
36.2 mpg UK/1.2 = 30.2 mpg US (city)
61.4 mpg UK/1.2 = 51.2 mpg US (highway)
48.7 mpg UK/1.2 = 40.6 mpg US (combined)
MINI Cooper S
Fuel Consumption
31.7 mpg UK/1.2 = 26.4 mpg US (city)
49.6 mpg UK/1.2 = 41.3 mpg US (highway)
40.9 mpg UK/1.2 = 34.1 mpg US (combined)
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