7 weeks, 2000 miles, overall avg 30.5 mpg (tank), avg speed only 33 mph, so intown driving (sport on always, AC usually off). Highway is more like 34-35mpg. Read a review today of the new Nisson Altima hybrid. He got 35 mph in mixed use. The Mini's not bad, eh?

 

Ms Mini, 2007 mcs manual, over 3500 miles driving gets 30 to 31 mpg in mixed mostly conservative driving. It is okay to run in top gear at 35 mph or up with no significant lugging.

 

now that i re-read what I said about how i drive, it's actually quite obvious why i dont get great mpg's
sillly me
today i was driving with my mom in the car, she asked why i was driving so... not fast... I replied "better fuel economy mom"

coasting FTW

 

I get 280 miles to a tank

 

do you shift outta first gear? My S averages ~390-400/tank and I drive pretty hard almost all the time. I also refill before getting to empty.

 

My shift points are above 4k and i basically drive 15 miles a day to and from work. As long as it gets better mileage than my Porsche Im happy

 

MCS Auto, drive to San Diego & Back, average of about 80mph, OBC said about 32-33mpg average the trip. Not bad. If I drop the speed to 70 it goes up to 36mpg. Oh, this is with 4 adults in the car and a full tank of gas.

 

hehe that explains a bit =)

 

I have had Mombo for nearly a month now and I always put 91 octane in. However, on my trip out to Virginia Beach for the GWR 300 Run, only 93 octane was available and my OBC said I was getting between 44.5 mpg. I stopped and filled him up (with 93 again) and he took 10.65 gallons and I went a distance of 454 miles. Doing the math I was getting 42.6 mpg! I zeroed out the range again and for the rest of the 150 miles home, my OBC said 48.5 mpg! I was even going in stop and go traffic on Rt. 13 in VA, MD and DE. I am very anxious to fill him up again and check the math manually. But is this high mpg really even possible? I thought the highest mpg was supposed to be ~40? Neither less, I am absolutely thrilled with everything about my MC! My husband now wants one, so hopefully soon we'll be a 2 Mini family!

 

For my MCS, 35.3 on the computer, 29 calculated. (This was the first tank of gas and the mileage may have been off a tad in my calculations.) Running 92 octane.

Average speed on this tank was around 24 - lots of stop and go commuting mixed in with some hghway miles.

 

another anecdote. A buddy of mine, who took delivery of his r56 mc 6spd back in may, just told me he got 600 miles out of his tank with 93 v-power. the obc said he had only 20 miles left. Filled up with more v-power goodness his mileage worked out to be 42.9 mpg!!!! He figures the true capacity of the tank is around 14.2 gallons, which he was trying to determine.

So more power to you all r56 coopers!!!

 

Hi Joe!

Why weren't you at the last RGRSCCA auto-x?

Mike O.

 

Just bought gas for about the 5th time at 1771 miles. I got 31.14 mpg on the last tank. OBC said 31.0. Average speed in the high 30s so mostly in town sort of driving.

 

My OBC is reading in the low 36s (36.1-36.4) in my MCS with 3K miles on it, in almost all highway driving, over 3 tanks of gas.

No, I'm not tailgating you, sir, I'm just drafting you to catch some better MPG numbers

 

That's interesting. I can't get 93 octane in AZ, now I wish I could so I could try that theory out.

 

I just got gas for the first time after getting my bad injector replaced and got 32.1 in mixed driving (OBC said 32.8). This is the best I've gotten to date and I'm not sure if its the injector being good now and/or a combo of the exhaust and intake, either way I'm very happy and IMO I will hit 40 mpg on the freeway w/ the cruize on going 70-75 mph (already hit 38.4)!

 

I replied earlier, but then I took a trip last week of 1000 miles roundtrip at freeway speeds of 80+ mph. I fueled up twice on the trip, drove the 1000 freeway miles as well as some local driving in the destination and on a side trip. Both tanks got 500+ miles on them (I had a little in the tank before I set off, maybe 1/4 tank). I got 40+ mpg while on the highway (not on cruise, only did about 38 on cruise, i guess it is harder when the car cruises to maintain the same linear speed and not the same engine speed, as I can when I am in control. A really, really big hill does not require 80+ speeds when no one else's car can even attempt to go up that fast), and did my usual 34-36 in town. I drive a MCS manual. I am thrilled with the mileage on this car.

 

Just got through doing a 513 mile trip this weekend. Overall gas mileage was 39.6MPG. But the last tank (after going past break-in miles) was 42.2MPG at an average speed of 60.8MPH (most of the time I was driving 70MPH)! WOOT!

 

Once again the MINI has surprised me! With my regular mixed driving this past weekend my family and I did some driving in the MINI. It covered all surface streets and w/ the A/C . Only part of the way home had us on the freeway and I ended up getting 37.5 mpg (OBC said 37.0) I'm truely amazed at this car!!!

 

I'm simply amazed by the gas millage on our MCS 6spd!

In town here in Chicago (highway, local, mixed) I'm getting about 33 MPG. With the roof rack, I loose about 1 MPG. On our recent 3000+ mile trek to MOT 2007 we averaged 36.4 on the highway. This was with the AC on and doing mostly 75-80.

 

Mine is still in break-in period (less 300 miles)---getting combined city/highway 28 mpg.

 

Mine does not burn ANY gas!!! Really, well, if you don't believe me how about I give you a shot of my odometer?

 

Check it again. It says you're doing 0 mph. Doesn't say anything about gas consumption. But I do notice the warning triangle. Probably for speeding, no doubt.

 

I have 1100 miles on my MCSa and get about 28mpg.. Not bad I guess.. I usually drive aggressively thru the streets.. Mostly city driving. I'm hoping it gets better.

 

According to my Scan Gauge, at one point on the way to the Metro this morning, I got 162.4MPG. Too bad it was for about 2 seconds.