I have the Td4 engine , 126k mls.

Thought I was doing well to get over 40mpg

That was at 56mph over a motorway journey of 37 mls.

Hi Rommel, I have just read your post and it reminded me of my ambulance training with the driving instructor bellowing at you saying "Gears are for going and brakes are for stoping" and heaven forbid if you got it wrong.
Cheers
Moe

Very interested in this thread. Although after 17 years of Disco 1 and zDisco 2 the fact that my average fuel use has never been below 25mpg. Have had 4o on 150 mile round trip. To me this is great and quite happy to live with the mpg. Money back in pocket. Jim A
Fl2 HSE 2010 auto
Disco 2Td5 auto 2002 gone
Disci 1 300Tdi auto 1996 gone

The trip computer is currently hovering around 35.7mpg as an average for the last week or so, trips mainly back and forth to the office (motorway and some urban).
Know it will be lower in reality but never seems to far off so satisfied enough with that Andrew

Had a longer run for work last week, South Wales to Salisbury (via Pontypool) and back and the old lie-o-meter showed an average of over 41mpg for the trip. Was nearer 42mpg for most of it but the works on the M4 near Cardiff at the moment saw to that. Andrew

Mine gets 39mpg after a service and drops to near 36mg when its nearly service time
and it's been like that for the last 6yrs on the daily 18mile plod to work.

Went to Dublin last night for a show, 125 miles each way. Journey down in no hurry ar 60 - 65 mph returned 40 mpg exactly. Trip home somewhat faster 😏, 32 mpg. Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

OK so this is an old video but the principles are the same and can be applied to cars with a manual box though all trucks now are mostly auto, the thing is maintain momentum where possible and avoid coming to a complete stop by reading the traffic and road ahead.

 2013 FL2 XS.
Defender 90 300 TDi.
Defender 90 300 TDi CSW.
1964 MGB Roadster.
1944 Willys MB "Jeep" with bullet holes. (gone)
17 hand Irish Drought Thoroughbred (mostly lame)
Nagging Old Boiler.

Mahatma Gandhi said if there is an Idiot in power those who elected him are well represented

Travelling from M1 J28 up to M1 J35, i reset the MPG as i went down the slip road, set the cruise to 74mph (which i know is 70mph via separate GPS), decreased that to 62mph passed Sheffield Meadowhall, and the lie-ometer was showing 52mpg.
Heading back down later I did the same again and got 47mpg.

normally round town im getting around 30mpg so thats about right but i was impressed with the motorway mpg

Today I measured my MPG once the car was warm.

I waited until I had travelled about 5 miles and cruising on the motorway, the FL2 warmed up and short period of heated seats, etc finished with.

After zeroing the trip I got an indicated average 42.3 mpg over the 16.7 miles to my junction with cruise-control set at 65 mph indicated. The road was dry and flat (its called the Somerset levels), air temp 8 c and a very slight head wind.
This is the highest mpg that I have recorded ever when I have looked at it.
I continued on my day trip, a circular route on reasonable roads 40 - 50 mph, returning over the Mendip Hills.
The trip included 3 stops of about half an hour each.

My readout for the day (about 86 miles in total), was average 38.7 mpg and average speed 34 mpg, both indicated.

This overall figure is better than I normally get on my tank to tank readings, I got 35.1 mpg average indicated the last time I refilled with diesel.

My Trip B reading that has been running since I had this Metro (40K+ miles) is reading 33.5 mpg, and would include many a cold start, heated seats (and steering) in winter and hours of AirCon in the summer. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 77k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

Today I got my first £100 fuel Receipt.

I filled up after 457 miles with about 12.5 gals = 36.5 mpg.

It doesn't seem that long ago that I used to fill my first car for £1.
(Well it was 1961 and 4.5 galls used to take my Ford Popular's 6 gall petrol tank's gauge up to the top weekly.)


 FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 77k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

My last fill was on 7 May at £1.799 - £109.70; three weeks before that it was £1.739 so where did the supposed reduction go?
Just glad I no longer need to commute

Unfortunately I cannot see motoring costs going down anytime soon.

The real RPI for April 2022 was 11.1%.

As this is the measure with to which most prices are adjusted (example rail fares), then I think that we may be in for a rough ride, and will need to brush up on our hypermile driving skills.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationan.../czbh/mm23 FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
FL2 Metropolis SD4 Auto 2014 2017- (16k - 77k+ miles) (MY2015)
Metro in its 11th Year of (Extended) LR Warranty / Full LR Service History
(Expensive, but Trouble/Worry free - hopefully?)

Only £103 this morning 🙄 Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)