Usually City driving, with 10-20% spent on the highway... I get 28.5mpg according to the computer~ Not bad at all~ I love this car
So much performance while using very little gas

 

I'm in north Texas and we get 93 here.

 

Am getting 30 MPG on MCS. Drive the 405 between Fountain Valley and Rancho Santa Margarita. The majority of my drive is the stop-n-go.

Paul

 

30mpg is impressive!!! Much better than the 20 I get from my current car.

 

mann someting must be wrong with my 56 because the best ive had so far (921mls)is 24.7. don't know if its because i havent broken it in yet.

 

So for the first month I averaged about 31mpg. I then reset the average and tried to see how high I could keep it with a mix of city and highway driving. After a week (and over 200 miles), I was at 36.7 mpg!!! The downside is that it required me to drive conservatively (coasting to red lights, not slamming the foot on the gas on green lights, cruise control on the highway etc) - which is freakin hard in a MCS! I think at one point I was passed by a Prius (ok, just kidding that's NEVER happened)

So - it is possible to get really really good gas mileage but is it worth it? Admittedly I like a good challenge and so it wasn't that bad while I was doing my experiment but when I decided the experiment was over it was great to get the sensation of acceleration again!!! Oh, and my mpg only dropped down to 34.9 by the time I needed the tank refilled - so not bad!

 

And even more impressive compared to the Chevy Tahoe that my Mini replaced.

Is funny... The Tahoe barely fit in the one-car garage it lived in. The Mini could almost fit in the Tahoe, and could just about do a u-turn in the same garage... haha...

Love my Mini!

If you see an 07 MCS - Red with black roof on the 405 in OC, give me a wave!

Paul

 

I did about 200 miles yesterday mostly highway, got 34 mpg vs 29.5 that I'd gotten in town for the first 1000 miles. I'd say the car performs as advertised mileage-wise. I use very little AC so far here in central AZ. We don't need it yet for the most part.

 

spam052--I would check with the dealer to make sure the mixture is set right. Even with rush hour traffic you should do better. Mine was about 29 during breakin, and quickly rose to the 30s.

 

do you drive up hill both ways?

you've definiately quoted the worst gas mileage to date for an r56.

bad enough that you created an account to post it.

 

With about 1500 miles on the car the worst I've gotten is 27.7 and the best has been 31.5 and this is "kinda" mixed. To get this figure I used the trusty calculator, but I must say the cars computer is pretty close, well sometimes it is anyways. I say kinda because the road I take to work is a 3 laner on both sides with large median and the speed limit is 50 mph and its kinda long inbetween lights. After that its your average stop and go distance between lights. One thing though, like many others here, its hard to drive the car normal, especially in my case because I've got an exhaust and intake mod done to my car I'm going to Grand Rapids this Thursday (2 1/2 hour drive on the freeway), so I'll see how the mileage is there. I plan on using the cruize and NO sport button on the way there and on the way back, cruize and sport button ON, just to see.

 

Now at about 1000 miles on the odometer, I have filled the tank of my 07 MCS twice. First fill was 32.8 mpg, second was 34, my own calculations.

 

A number of weeks ago we went to Washington DC from our home in the NY suburbs. We traveled the length of NJ, DE, and MD into the DC area. Remarkably, we had 41.7 mpg on the trip down. Car had 1200 miles on it, and no traffic on the way down. We have never set the OBC since delivery and we have had 35.6 mpg overall since we got the car. Wife uses it to commute to work and has some days with bumper to bumper traffic. We also had very bad traffic returning from DC so that is figured into the grand total equation.

Needless to say, every opportunity I have to drive "her" car, I do; even if it's to go get her gas. Because of work, I drive a Subaru, but if MINI had an awd model, I'd trade-in in a heartbeat.

I've been driving since 1969 and have owned a few radical cars, including the very first Mazda RX-3 and a Mazda Cosmo, both w/ rotary engines, but nothing compares to driving the MINI. Whatever safety concerns I had in the beginning (sharing the road w/ 80,000 trucks) went out the door first time I got into one at the dealer.

R56 MCa BRG/W NAV dsc etc.

 

With 2450 on the car, driving 44 miles/day with 8 of those being street driving, I average out around 27.8. Considering I don't get better than 16mpg on my X5, 27mpg+ is great.

 

I got 22.4 last tank. All commuter backed-up traffic and short (mileagewise) trips. I'm not complaining.

 

I have 2000 miles. I always use the sports switch. Mix of suburban and highway (some stop/start) and I have been getting mid 30mpg per tank. As weather warms up, I find it's not that difficult to average 37 mpg per tank. And that's with showing off to annoying Lexus drivers who think their cars can handle.

I find the OBC comuter's estimates of average mpg very close to method of miles driven/gallons to fill. (Side note related to OBC not consumption is that the range estimate is wildly non-linear)

 

Hey, it would help if you are going to post here, to say whether you are talking MC or MCS (if it ain't obvious from your sig).

 

My last 3 tanks (calculated): 33.3, 32.5, and 34.7. Not bad!

 

I'm HOPING with the wife behind the wheel (she has a very light foot) on the MCS Auto we have coming in she'll get in the low 30's. I can guarantee I'll never see above 20 unless it's a long straight highway.

 

With something over 400 miles I'm getting average mileage of about 30 mpg. This is with what I consider bad mileage driving, good break-in driving.

 

i have the same thing in my AT MC but 25-28 mpg (los angeles) mix driving and once going at 90-110 mph for 40 mins

 

I filled up my tank for the first time last night! I waited for it to go to 2 bars and heard the ding a few times. Doing the math, I got 28.3 mpg on my MCS Auto. The OBC said 29.8. It steadily went up as I drove haven't started at 23 pmg or so when I got the car with 7 miles on the odometer.

Pretty mixed driving, 20 miles each way to work with only 3 miles of that on the city streets. But, I took it on many short trips to the market, to visit people to spread the good word of the MCS. Any reason to drive, I found it. I think after a few more tanks, I'll steadily avg 30-31 mpg with mostly conservative driving with the occasion highway straightaway stretch, just to let the variable valves and the turbo to breathe a little. If it can get any more that, it'll be all gravy.

 

I think I may have a record for worst.

MC auto, first tank was something less than 24 mpg. City driving, including traffic, but half the miles were highway. Crossing my fingers that this is a break-in number!

 

The computer does show the average speed of the tank as well. If I just blurt out I am getting 22.3MPG and did not tell you my average speed is 19.1MPH you might think soemthing is borked up really good.

I seldom get out of 4th gear and spend most time in 3rd gear. I will have had Romi a week tomorrow and have 68 miles on her! WOOHOO! At this rate she will be broken in by labor day weekend! WOOT!

My computer shows my 15,000 mile service interval to occur sometime in 2010. Good thing I bought the 4 year warranty.

 

Shame Shame. The saucy vixen will start stepping out for more miles if you're not careful!