Post by three5 on Jul 30, 2022 20:56:04 GMT
I was in Oxfordshire a week ago and drove home on Sunday leaving at about 09.30. I filled up with standard Esso derv near Wantage and added Millers additive as I always do. I also reset the MPG readout. As there was no particular rush to get home to Yorkshire, I set the cruise control to 60 MPH once I got onto the M40 just to see what difference cruising at 60 MPH rather than my normal 65/66 would make. I was listening to an audiobook and wasn't particularly looking at the MPG display. However, by the time I got to the M40/M42 junction, the MPG readout was 53. What surprised me was that the figure continued to climb till on leaving the M62 it was reading 62.8 MPG. I'd never seen this sort of figure sustained on the vehicle so just before I got home ( MPG figure still showing 61.2 ) I filled to the brim again knowing how inaccurate the Toyota MPG figure would be and calculated that the real figure was 50.8 MPG. When I first got the vehicle I could get this sort of MPG on the continental motorways ( i.e. driving from home to Zug in Switzerland ) if I drove fairly carefully but I was amazed by this episode. The car is a 2008 XT5 with 102,000 miles on the odometer but the engine was replaced by Toyota because of oil consumption at 32,000 miles.
The question is "why would I consider changing a vehicle that performed in this way?"
