I’m not overly impressed by those figures. We had a much larger Honda CRV 1.6 diesel for a number of years and it was better on fuel. My ancient Toyota Avensis 1.8 petrol estate can touch 50mpg on longer runs and average mid 40’s in general use. Almost any modern petrol supermini can do 50mpg plus. Hybrids were rare before government legislation forced them onto us because they don’t really save a huge amount of fuel in real life driving, not enough to return the additional investment over a normal petrol model unless you’re a taxi driver or similar. We were looking at Renault Scenic’s with the 1.3 turbocharged petrol motor and they apparently could do 50mpg easily enough without all the extra cost and weight of hybrid running gear. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice looking car but with Renault you’re best going for the least complexity possible.

SLO, you don't seem to have taken account that the OP's car seems to have been used for short local runs. Indeed, to get so much time running on battery, it must surely be doing a lot of town work to get all that regen braking!

I just don't accept that a petrol Scenic is going to get anywhere near 50mpg (or even 40mpg) on short local runs.

Just checked my fuel computer (Ibiza 1.0 TSi). Over the last 2455 miles, it averaged 49.3mpg Average speed 29mph. This car's main use is for my 27 mile each way commute, (with some short local running about in between). I wouldn't get anything like this on only local runs.

When I ran a hired Fiesta 1.0 Ecoboost TC auto (in 2020) it averaged 10 mpg less than the Ibiza (which I put down to it being an auto. The op's car is an auto hybrid).

To me, the OP's figures sound impressive.

Fuel economy is not really important if doing not much more than 5000 miles a year.

John, that depends whether you are economising on fuel or cash ! In these days of CO2 it should be fuel, surely ?

I’m a big fan of the Clio - looks great, inside and out and probably the best B segment hatch out there. I’d be happy with 55mpg from a 145PS hatch which runs zero emissions for half the time. For the life of me I can’t see how a Peugeot 2008 is more upmarket…

I'm intrigued by the extra doors. Dual.cat flaps?

…I'm intrigued by the extra doors. Dual.cat flaps?

I'm also curious about John's 2008 having 7 doors?!

Sorry - thought it was a two door, googled a pic to check, only appeared to have one door handle (per side;-)

Interesting figures, but a v. important one is missing. On-the-road cost?

However in response to this, the current 2008 starts off at £24,180, the Clio E Tech starts off at £21,495

Yes, but that's list price, isn't it? I thought no-one paid that - we certainly didn't.