mjheathcote
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Didn't buy it for fuel economy, let's get that straight first!
Just interesting as I don't use mine for any long journeys, but early this morning was travelling up the A1M and decided to pin it at 70mph on cruise, as it was a little misty and I was not in a hurry.
Anyway the on board trip kept swapping between 24 and 24.7 mpg for the whole journey.
So saying on a long tour, when the speed can be kept pretty constant, what is the optimum cruising speed and best possible mpg achievable?
I watched a Harry's Garage youtube video yesterday and he was driving a new 500+bhp Jag fully ladened up down to the Alps and he got over 30 mpg, so why can't ours achieve anything like that? what's changed tech wise to achieve power and economy?
Just interesting as I don't use mine for any long journeys, but early this morning was travelling up the A1M and decided to pin it at 70mph on cruise, as it was a little misty and I was not in a hurry.
Anyway the on board trip kept swapping between 24 and 24.7 mpg for the whole journey.
So saying on a long tour, when the speed can be kept pretty constant, what is the optimum cruising speed and best possible mpg achievable?
I watched a Harry's Garage youtube video yesterday and he was driving a new 500+bhp Jag fully ladened up down to the Alps and he got over 30 mpg, so why can't ours achieve anything like that? what's changed tech wise to achieve power and economy?