What Mpg Do You Get? (Diesel Fiestas In Particular)

[-Cammy-]

Hello everyone,

I've been living with my 59 Fiesta 1.6 TDCI Titanium for a couple of months now and I absolutely love it. Compared to my old 2002 focus lx it feels like I'm riding in style.

I've just taken on a new job which unfortunately requires a 60 mile round trip commute each day. I have not had to commute for a couple of years as I currently walk into work which is of course free. The increase in pay unfortunately is awfully close to the amount I anticipate it will cost me to commute so I'm keen to keep cost to an absolute minimum in order to make the most of my pay rise.

I probably spend 70% of my time in town or on twisty country roads and just 30% on dual carriageways/motorways. With my new job those figures will probably switch.

At the moment if I behave I get about 50mpg which is my benchmark. And thats with AC on and changing gears at less than 2000rpm. I was just wondering what other Fiestas are getting and at any particular road speeds/conditions? And in particular ones similar to mine.

Will I see a significant increase in economy or is that wishful thinking. On dual carriageways I usually sit at 80 on cruise control but because this is shortish commute I can probably hold myself back to as low as 60 if its worth it.

Also, at some point I think I will get my engine remapped as I heard it gives good power and efficiency gains for turbocharged engines. Has anyone got any first hand experience of this?

Thanks and sorry if this is a bit of a boring post! I'll thing of something more interesting next time.

[ed12]

I've had a Fiesta Zetec Eco 1.6 61 plate and curently have a Fiesta Zetec S TDCi 61 plate (both diseasels) so hopefully my figures will help!

The Eco and Zetec S both have different gearing, with the S being approx 300rpm higher at the same speed (Not sure where yours will come into that).

The Eco I had a high as 72MPG sitting at 60ish over a tank with 90% of that being major A & M roads, the lowest I had out of that car was 54MPG over a tank.

The Zetec S I've had 65MPG based on the same as above, however as low as 36MPG over a tank (Yes, I am 21) ;)

If you limit the country road hooning and go as fast as the traffic in front, up to 3 points terroritry - I would expect 50-55MPG would be a fairly reasonable result.

Unable to report on remap side of life - my cars have been company provided and usually change every 12-18 months so wouldnt work for me really.

[jbell]

2009 1.6 tdci (90ps), I do a lot of town driving. Sitting at about 46mpg

[jbell]

From a little experimenting though -- I was only able to get over 60mpg at 55-63mph. Once I hit 70 it starts going down.

[B13]

I have a 2010 1.6 TDCI (admittedly the Sport van variant) and get around 57mpg on a typical 20 mile A and B road journey. This drops to around 51mpg in Winter.

:)

[funkyg]

I have the 2013 1.5 diesel.

My average is around 62mpg. But then again I sit on the motorway with the cruise control set at 60. I've had it as high as 69 and lowest normal was 57.

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[bootsy]

I had a 2013 Econeteic 1.5 and I was getting 71.4, that was not going over 60 mph and taking it really easy.

[funkyg]

Is that 71.4 mpg indicated or measured? That's really good.

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[bootsy]

That was indicated but it was very good I am just hoping our new one will be as good as its 100cc larger engine, it went up to that from 67.2 after we had it for a year and it had done 9k miles.

[funkyg]

I find that the Fiesta over estimates the mpg by about 5-8mpg.

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[andypercy]

1.5 tdci Fiesta Titanium. 50 mile journey (twice a day) - 30 miles on motorway. Max speed 60 , average over journey around 25

On two occasions I have had over 80mpg

Normally low to mid 70s

At least 5mpg better than my previous 1.4 tdci Fiesta

Very happy.