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My Mercedes-Benz E220 Coupe returned almost 60mpg on a long trip - which cars can beat that?

Your correspondent LD of Weybridge should ditch his Fiat 500 TwinAir and buy a Mercedes-Benz. I have just driven my four-month-old E220 Coupe from Northallerton to Winchester, at motorway speeds throughout, and the trip computer gave a final average consumption for the journey of 59.9mpg. At one point it was reading over 60mpg. I am hoping that as a diesel, once well run in, this figure will improve. On top of this, the car is a sheer joy to drive.

Asked on 21 May 2011 by IH, Winchester.

Answered by Honest John
A Toyota Auris HSD is better. On a 300-mile run to deliver one to my father in Northumberland I got 62.3mpg. I even pushed it to 62.5 just before delivering by running electric for the last mile or so. Of course, LD of Weybridge is having a lot more fun in his 500 TwinAir than you can ever have in your Mercedes-Benz, and laughing all the way to the bank by not having to tax it or pay London congestion charges. Economy is not the point of the TwinAir. Beating the system is.

Real MPG enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.

Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average automatically adjusts to reflect it.

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