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The TV advert says 75mpg and 1200 miles on a tank full




except in small print it says "mpg figures are not actual mpg figures and are achieved in the laboratory, actual driving mpg figures may vary"


i bet they do

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They never get on the open road when they're doing road tests. You'll struggle to get 60MPG with a Vauxhall.

the AVERAGE (over 118 owners) is 40mpg with a (fluke?) maximum of 60mpg.....

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That equates to a Sixteen Gallon Fuel tank, Surely lugging all that extra weight of fuel about would reduce fuel economy, not increase it.

Why not go the full hog and tow a bowser of spare fuel behind you to achieve still further range..

a council official who cut off the water supply to a local cemetery (for the relatives flowers, etc) had to ask me what a bowser was.......dont these people go to university to learn?

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the government should insist that mpg figures are ACTUAL driving mpg figures, on the streets, with no stripping out or tweaking of the engines and no 200psi in the tyres

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They become Degree level clever but commonsense level stupid..

I was a buyer at a wholesaler with 2 uni boys above me, i had to drop some stuff at a customer, the address was "watling street" and they didnt know that was the A5....."is it"?.......yet they drove along twice a day to get in and home...

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2.0 diesel auto, 34mpg round town. Not doing much long distance stuff at the moment. That is similar to another guy with a similar car on a different company.