Sharpie Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 I have a 200 mile trip Shell station to Shell station which, I normally check my MPG with but, last week I was in a rental car. It was a 1.8 SRI Astra. I drove the Astra like I drive the soop and over the same strech of road and found that the MPG of the Astra only gave me 1 extra mile MPG over the Supra :-) Supra = 23 MPG Astra = 22 MPG Is the supra really that expensive to run ? Oh, I did have the SPORT button on all the time in the Astra which, I think would use more fuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 That's quite surprising and fairly shocking that the modern Astra is so poor. I bet you can't wait to get your Supra back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricky-Ricky Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 " drove the Astra like I drive the soop and over the same strech of road" So in order to do that you had the Astra peddle buried in the carpet all the time;) Hardly a surprising result then:rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 LOL - the fastest car on the road is a rental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 LOL - the fastest car on the road is a rental. Escpecially in reverse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymdee Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 We used to have a works VW Passat tdi (110 bhp I think). I used to drive that as I drive the Supra up and down the Bristol ring road and only averaged 31 mpg over a week - was expecting a bit better than that from a frugal diesel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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