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52.28 mpg - I didn't copy and paste into Wordpad, honest

I get 37mpg at worest and that thrashing and city work 40+ on motor way, mine preeety much standard compared with some.

well course we are

if you cant afford to put the fuel in you cant drive it eh

and to be honest i think i'm going to be overdrafting / credit carding til pay packet comes in next wednesday!

especially thanks to a couple fuel stops i didnt think i was going to have to do (2x one gallon to cover an extra 80 miles .... at motorway prices..... optimax is up to 99.9 (so it's not "quite" a quid) but regular aint much better)

but here's another one then, marko - you may have the mpg but how many pence per mile is that?
(52.3? pretty damn fine )

PS I can still read this size text perfectly well on my monitor!

That's why I wrote it this size

Closest i got was a tiny tailslide on the country lane backroute that sidesteps the usual A453 carnage around nottingham, it's got a formula-1 worthy one-two double 90 degree S bend with some rather dodgy camber. Had some serious lean out of the VW suspension round there (power wasnt quite up to major shenanigans though, due to the wigglyness of the approach road, even in the wet), and I've seen a Saxo the wrong way round in a ditch there before. Tray decided it might want to join the Citroen, lucky that once again i'd bottled it on the approach and lifted off a little earlier than i might with less floaty suspension, so it was little more than a trouser-browning flutter rather than a drift that needed saving...

Is that the road between Kegworth and Gotham Tahrey? If it is I know which set of corners you mean, I do them every morning in my GT on the way to work (which incidentally is stupidly economical!). 48mph is my record around those S bends in the dry, and about 30 in the wet (understeer reared its head at that speed)

Tom

it is mate - depending on what time you go, you might see me hustling round them one morning & afternoon/evening a week on the way to peoples college from september...

48 eh... sounds like a challenge... i've certainly had both cars in the 40s round there, cant remember what in the wet though. by a stroke of luck its almost always been dry.

biggest problem i have is closer towards clifton - no better example of how poor the average standard of driving and how little attention people pay to other road users than the mongy behaviour around that T-junction in the middle of the high-speed NSL area - and pheasants flying out from the roadside anywhere along that country detour!

PS if you like that, can i reccomend the B4246 near Abergavenny? It damn near made me crap myself at 2am last night, which is a rare thing for a mere bit of road to do rather than another driver. Awesome bit of tarmac, but i quite fancy doing it in the daylight next time as i twice locked up tyres from all of about 27mph in fright (lucky i turned the radio down and realised just how fast i was going and what revs i was pulling off the throttle in low gear before reaching those points otherwise it could have been messy). Can you say non-barriered vertical drops of several hundred feet? Yep.

cut it out carrot boy!
hmmmm interesting, size settings lower than 6 make no difference, even down to size=1...

I'll keep an eye out for you! I'll either be in a silver GT or a purple Mini Clubman, making a howl from a straight cut gearbox, either way you shouldn't miss me!

I agree about the t-junction, that NSL road is a nice bit of road if you're heading from Gotham to Clifton, its just the idiots in their company cars pulling out on you 100 yards ahead that spoil it - and the roadkill on that road is collosal, you'd have thought the local animal population would have realised and moved house by now.

I'll go round the corners in the Mini once its run in (450 miles and counting!), and set you a new record to beat......70??

if you set 70 then i'll just park up and cheer you on to do some repeats rather than trying to beat that! it'd be a thing to see round there.... you'd have to wait til theres no traffic though, because i've seen trucks being held up by dodderers convinced they'll end up as cow food if they take the turn at more than 25.
(actually the trucks, coming from whatever that secretive turn-off they spawn from is half a mile from up the road, are the fastest things i've seen going round there ... been left behind by them before as i simply didnt have the grip. whatever they do down that private road ... they come back empty)

i wouldnt even get oversteer - or anything that could be called regular understeer - attempting that corner at such a speed, the car would just ignore what i did with the wheel and fly into one of those fields!

i know too well from my dad's stories the stickiness of those beasts... (he & mum had a mini clubman before i was born, til it broke down in france and they abandoned it)
their old 850cc woody could only just scrape 70mph (what with the low output and the poorly chosen gearing), but once you reached that speed, you could stay there down pretty much any road, whilst "greater" cars would have to brake and lose an awful lot of speed to stay attached to tarmac just keep your right foot planted and say a quick prayer to st christopher that your arms will be fast and strong enough to wrench the wheel, and your neck tough enough to resist snapping...!

40 mpg out a gt, im tempted, i only get 100 miles to £10 on my diesel slowlo

indeed, having just had the suspension set up to 1.75deg neg camber at the front, and 0.5 neg at the back, with 5.5deg castor and nob-on tracking, it handles pretty well.

GT's are good on fuel, even making use of the power they are still pretty frugal, I never seem to get less than 320 miles out of a tank, ever.

You lot should really stop complaining.....

Try this on for size then...

approx 250km covered & used approximately 60 litres of fuel.

what that work out at then?