Good Afternoon All,
What kind of miles am I likely to get on a full tank of fuel please with a 2006-2008 2 Litre Sport Soft Top
Cheers
Nick
Are you asking for a brimmed tank to when the car runs out of fuel or until the low fuel light comes on?
My fuel light comes on with 9ltrs of fuel left.
It is probably easier to say that 33-34mpg is common with some reporting less than 30 mpg and others reporting 40mpg plus.
The tank is 55ltrs and my own personal driving returns 33-39mpg.
Richard.
I ran may car extremely close to empty last month, gauge on zero, and filled to the brim. Managed to get in 40.32L which equates to 8.86 gallons. Ran to zero again, I got 312 miles from the tank which is 35 mpg.
Wowzers! Mine struggles to get 30mpg. Admittedly i have been doing lots of short, stop - start journeys recently.
Either way, I brimmed it recently and only got around 270 miles before the light came on.
My 2 litre sport does 32 mpg. I’ve been checking it as I’m new to the car. I fill it to the brim and refill when the light comes on… I do a mixture of long and short journeys, anything from 1 1/2 miles to 150 miles. I’m happy with the results.
Kathy[(y)]
Forgot to say from filling tank to when the light comes on I do 300-308 miles. Depends how quickly I get to the petrol station I suppose.
Ps how do you change the colour, size and font for these messages? [:-] Also I’m using an iPad, dunno if that makes a difference.
I don’t know, but enough to make me happy.
My last Mk1/Mk2 cars both 1.8 liked to drink the fuel more than the 2ltr Sport does.
I find it makes quite a big difference between top up and top down at speed, but not otherwise. 2008 2litre Niseko with folding hard top.
Top up on a long fast motorway run and pushing on a bit, daylight out darkness back it averaged 40.5mpg, fill to fill at the same pump of V-Power.
Top down gently pottering around town, lanes and interesting country mostly daytime, about 41.5mpg. But add some motorway with the top down (eg coming back from Gaydon) and it really dropped, down to 35.3mpg.
That is from looking at the pump receipts, when I also wrote down the mileage.
When I commuted on the M25 at 430 miles a week, my old 1.4SE Astra averaged 45.2mpg for 205,000 miles new to scrap, 170,000 of which were M25. In the summer (no lights) it did 47mpg and in the winter (lights and HRW etc) it did 43mpg. I do not expect to do this sort of mileage in the MX5!
In the vein of the above, I went from a Ford Fiesta 1.6 Econetic diesel which did 60 mpg to my lovely 07 2L. MX5 which does 33 - 36 mpg.
I wouldn`t swap back!!!
Who cares, fill it up drive it, fill it up again and drive it some more.
I have an 1800 VVTI engine in my 2005 Icon. I’m quite heavy with the right foot and get 32.5 MPG on average.
Currently my 2.0L Sport Tech GT is running at 36.9mpg,
I do not run my petrol right down, I only run it down to 1/4 of a tank then fill up, Filling up with Super Go Go Juice (£1.249p) I get about 290 Miles before I have to fill up.
2.0 ltr PRHT Sport 6 speed - over 2626 miles - Best 41.2, Avg 39.7, Worst 36.6
2.0 ltr Soft top 5 Speed - over 6068 miles - Best 39.1, Avg 36.2, Worst 32.8
I normally reckon on looking to fill up around the 310 mile mark which in the 5 Speed takes about 40 ltrs.
With a 2.0 6-speed RC.
27 MPG around local area (mix of built up and one 60mph B-road)
35 MPG on motorway
The tank is 50 litre on the stats page in the owners handbook.
I think you get about 25 miles from when the light comes on. Hopefully you’re giving it some stick, so should get a lower mpg than normal.
IIRC, I got about 250-300 miles per tank (full to light + 15/20 miles). Best range was when I drove through a lot of 50mph roadworks. Worst is when I do a lot of short journeys around the city.
Over 27,074 miles (not all fill ups are logged) my 2.0 2006 NC has averaged 32.7mpg, the best being 42.5 (top down on A1,M25 & A20 Yorkshire to Kent) the worst 25.5. I’m quite happy with that.
A holiday to Nurburgring gave an average of 38.7mpg over 1506 miles including 3 laps and a few high speed runs on the de-restriced sections of the Autobahn.
I use a site called fuelly.com (as below in my avatar) which is very good for keeping track.
You have warning lights? Wow! I have a 2001 plate and 80k on the clock and manage 37/38 miles per gallon. It took 2 stoppages before I learnt my lesson [:-w]
A Mazda dealership had the following stats for a NC 2.0 Sport Tech Roadster Coupe…
Mpg Urban:26.9 mpg ( I agree with this figure )
Mpg Extra Urban:47.9 mpg ( Never seen this high. Maybe if you drove everywhere at 30mph in 6th gear with cruise control on )
Mpg Combined:37.2 mpg ( Plausible. I’ve seen mid 30’s sat at on a motorway with cruise control set at 70mph. But drops when exiting motorway onto B-road )
Tank Capacity:50 l
CO2 Emissions:181 g/km
Top Speed:132 mph
Acceleration (0-60mph):7.6 secs
Max Torque:188 Nm
Cubic Capacity (cc):1999 cc
Power (ps):158 PS
A lot depends on how you drive. I drove from Norfolk to Devon and back and managed just over 350 miles between fills (motorway driving there and the scenic route back). Average was 39.2 mpg.
Local running gives me between 37mpg and 40mpg. I’ve found I get a better mpg if I fill the tank with Premium unleaded instead of Standard unleaded. My MX5 is a 2006 2.0ltr (options pack).