Just got my new Arctic 1.5 and the engine is obviously very tight but the first 120 miles are showing an average of over 47mpg.
This includes a lot of short journeys. Encouraging that owners are getting 50+ .
The car is surprisingly more eager,even at this early stage ,than my 2.0 Sport Tech and I am pleased I went for a 1.5.
Good choice AJre great looking car colour has really grown on me
We’ll today I finished my second tank of fuel since new I got 1000 miles on two tank £84 give of me around town mid 55 mpg very happy
41-42mpg over 8kmiles. Mostly country roads with some motorways (80ish). 105 in 4th 5th and 6th just for cruising.
Got 43 mpg according to the fuel consumption meter on my 2.0 ND Sport. Done on 1,500 mile round trip (NC500) with quite a few miles of spirited driving on single track roads and a number of miles on motorways (80 mph). Nearly all of it with roof down and fully bombed up (wife plus weeks luggage). Very pleased!
redmazda, that is a great return on a new car. I am on about 400 miles now with my Arctic and my average mpg is 50.5 ,but thats lots of trips of 20 miles or less and mostly with the top down.
Incredible mpg was not the reason I bought the car but it sure is a bonus!
A J.
Pretty impressive mpg’s.! Not so impressed by the bragging about illegal mph’s by some though!
As OC members surely we should be promoting superior driving practices to the lesser mortals on these public roads!
Countryboy. I really do hope you were not talking about me “bragging”. The “bragging” was that I could get 43 mpg with roof down at an indicated speed of 80 mph. I know for a fact that my speedo consistently over-reads so I was probably doing about 76 mph. I was probably one of the slower cars on the road and in fact overtook a police car at that speed without him batting an eye. That is not bragging by the way. Shiiish!
Nope! Not you!
The only accurate way to measure fuel consumption is the fuel tank, brim to brim method.
Glad about that. Let you off
That also depends on how accurate your odometer is. If your speedo under-reads it is also possible that your odometer under-reads. if that is the case then you are getting even more mpg than you are calculating from a brimmed tank
We have just done 1200 miles around Scotland in our RF le and averaged 50.1 mpg
Those are impressive consumption figures for day-to-day driving. For comparison, during the 9 years that I owned my previous car it averaged just over 60mpg - and that was a 55bhp 1.4 diesel!! Only had my 2.0 NC a few weeks but the consumption appears to have settled at around 34mpg - but much more fun to drive than the old shopping car 
Roy, you’re certainly right about a 2.0L NC being more fun to drive than a 1.4L diesel !
I don’t know obviously, if you’ve tried this or not, but I get around 4 or 5 more mpg now that I have changed to premium petrol - about 37 mpg on average. My 2.0L Sport seems to run more smoothly on the dear stuff, and I put the better fuel consumption down to not having to floor the ‘go-pedal’ quite so much to get to where I wanna go !
Although I’m currently working my way through a few tank-loads of Shell V Power, as an experiment, to be honest I am not getting the feeling that this is any better than my previous choice of Sainsbury’s premium.