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01-11-2008, 06:30 AM | #1 |
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To those people that have taken delivery of their M3...what kind of fuel consumption are you getting on average?
At 1000Km's i am showing 14.3L/100kms or approx 19 mpg (UK). Does this improve any as the engines beds in? |
01-11-2008, 06:34 AM | #2 |
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I think that is about as good as it gets. No struggle to get mpg in the 20's if you take it easy on the motorway, though.
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01-11-2008, 07:55 AM | #3 | |
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Reset it after runninig in service, and after about 1000 miles, average is 17mpg (UK). |
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01-11-2008, 08:32 AM | #4 |
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The press car I drove back in September was averaging 20-21 mpg during the 3-day shoot, and I even saw it as high as 24mpg on one leg. I would expect you will be able to exceed 20mpg once it is run in since both the early press cars I drove had more than 2000 miles on them.
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01-11-2008, 08:33 AM | #5 |
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What's the difference between UK & US MPG?
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Mpg and I NEVER seen average go above 18.4!!! I driven on all roads too. I not complaining though but I do start to wonder how the hard the cars were driven at the official launch and wondering if thats why initial journalistic comment was not so positive or maybe bmw have a different mapping at launch time .... If its the former I might apply to next car journalist vacancy he he. |
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01-11-2008, 09:09 AM | #8 |
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We drove them 'very' hard at launch, which is why we saw 14mpg at the time. The RHD press car that we used for the M-cars feature in Wales was driven more as an owner would and that wouldn't drop below 20mpg.
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01-11-2008, 09:14 AM | #9 |
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I must be lightfooted!
At 5500 miles I'm now averaging around 23mpg overall, with a mix of commuting, the odd blast and some longer motorway miles. I stick rigidly to 80 on the motorways (too many speeding tickets in the last couple of years!!) and save the real high speed stuff for the back roads ....
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It started behaving a bit better after I kicked it. |
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01-11-2008, 03:43 PM | #13 |
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I was getting about 16.5 l/100km in the first 1200km (which was mainly city driving and about 200km on country roads). I reset it about 4 or 5 days ago and in the last 300km (all city driving) it has been about 14.5 l/100km.
Should say, the air-conditioner has had full time employment during the collation of these fuel consumption figures. Last edited by GeriFix; 01-11-2008 at 07:07 PM.. Reason: Additional Info |
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01-11-2008, 04:01 PM | #14 |
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My consumption currently is at 15,8L/100km and I've done brake-in service and have in total driven around 2 500km. Before the brake-in service I had around 14.1, but now I'm revving like crazy which makes a whirlpool in the fuel tank.
I aprox get 4 000 km/full tank which is insanely expensive, but it's all worth it. I have to do about 1-3 refills each week and the fuel prices have drastically increased due to political reasons in Sweden after new year. |
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Between 15mpg and 25mpg depending upon how heavy or light your right foot is (the latter is difficult unless you manage to keep close to speed limits on A roads/motorways). |
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01-13-2008, 01:16 PM | #17 |
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If you can afford an M3, why care about gas consumption? For US, I wouldn't be surprised if one only gets ave. 15mpg on daily driving. Welcome to the $5/gal price.
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01-13-2008, 01:27 PM | #18 |
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If I could avg 20 mpg in this I'd be rapt. @Pretender - some of us have long drives. I do 25k miles / yr, so even though affording an M3 is not an issue, at the margin I'd like to have as much efficiency as possible.
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01-13-2008, 03:36 PM | #21 |
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01-13-2008, 04:17 PM | #22 |
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I have an average of 12.4/100 km with mixed driving.
There was a big drop in fuel consumption during the run in period. With the lighter winter tires I use now, I even managed to get it down to 9.2/100 km, but that was boring and will most likely not happen again.
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