jshergil

I've got a 520D SE and get about 35mpg around town and 45 with abit of motorway driving...

Bazzman

I have an LCI 535d and tend to get around 35mpg (70% motorway/30% city)

BigladUK

My 2005 535D Sport gets an average of 30mpg which is mixed 50 50 split between motorway and short work runs.

I'm pleased with that

Si

Jambers

Well - Update (and a challenge should you wish to accept it ):

Completed 232 miles, 40 miles of which was A roads, 6 miles B and Thoroughfares, and the rest all motorway/dual carriageway (70mph limit). Brimmed the car with Standard Shell Diesel before the journey (actually the night before).

Some real traffic holdups, one patch where I slowed down to a crawl for 20 minutes on a dual carriageway due to "an incident". On the whole, I kept it to 70-73MPH using Cruise where possible. Just me in the car and the tyre pressures as indicated in the A pillars. Used the Turbo assistance only a bit to overtake lorries and tractors on the A roads (about 3 times).

And the MPG? I was staggered!

The OBC said 47.8mpg, but I thought it would be over-reading on the way home - so I filled up again, to the third click as usual.

It took ?25.60 worth of derv at ?1.21 p/litre, which makes it to be almost 50 mpg!

WOW - That is amazing! Anyone better that?

I am astonished at how close it hs come to the stated official figures (53mpg odd extra Urban) and a range of over 770 miles.

rxlee

Clearly it depends on what sort of journey is being made, but over 43000 miles my pre-LCI 535d has managed an average of 35.7mpg. My journies are mainly long motorway cruises. Around town and shorter journies really drop the MPG.

stiker

My figures match "rxlee" exactly, 35.7mpg over 2,300 miles and varying between 33.7 and 38 for other trip computer resets. Pre-LCI 535d M sport. Mpg improved slightly when I changed from runflats.