Trip to South Wales
Yesterday, I drove from Manchester with a full tank of diesel, two portly (dare I say!) male passengers, a full boot of luggage and PPE workwear, to Merthyr Tydfil South Wales to visit a site. On the way back I dropped one of the passenger's off at the wonderful Great Malvern train station so the A2 was also relieved of his luggage. I then proceeded with the other passenger back to Manchester. My fuel warning lamp was on but I drove on for several miles with the fuel gauge at the beginning of the red zone. I decided to fill up at the BP in Knutsford (M6/J19) as I was not sure how much fuel remained in the tank when the gauge was in the red zone. Overall, I made use of Skipton's cruise quite a lot; travelling around 60-70mph but the journey back was fraught with congestion on the M6 around Birmingham. I had travelled a total of 401.5 miles and required 27.23litres of diesel to fill to the brim thus averaging 67mpg - fantastic car.
The best I have done in terms of MPG was 79.4 on a journey from Bristol to Manchester where I maintained a steady 60mph using cruise for most of the journey.