Real MPG A roads speeds 60-65 miles

[Perfection]

Does anyone has any experience of real mileage on the above roads? The car will be used 95% of A roads conditions, and I would say 80% will be straight drive and not traffic causing stop starts.

[forkingabout]

Which hybrid engine option? 

[Perfection]

I am going to test drive a 2022 1.8 Excel this weekend.

 

Anything That I should be watchout for? Its not from a Toyota dealer. Its a Ford dealer.. 

[forkingabout]

You checked with your insurance company they will insure a C-HR?

There is a known theft issue & some insurance companies won't insure them OR will load the premium OR even insist on a approved secondary immobiliser to be fitted.

 

 

 

 

[Perfection]

Wow I am glad I asked the question. I will ask the insurance and thanks. Do you have a figure for MPG?

[forkingabout]

5 minutes ago, Perfection said:

Do you have a figure for MPG?

Mines a 2 litre hybrid & I'm not really trying to achieve maximum mpg from it.

[Perfection]

Just did an insurance quote. Ranges from £560 to £800. 

[Cyker]

That ain't bad - My Mk4 Yaris was getting quotes of 700-2000  

 

[Haliotis]

Mine is a 2021 1.8 C-HR.  I am not a fastidious mpg watcher, but I would say that on A roads I average mpg in the high 60s.  Have achieved 70+ on occasion.

[philip42h]

12 hours ago, Perfection said:

I am going to test drive a 2022 1.8 Excel this weekend.

The official WLTP figures are a very good guide for our hybrids. For the 1.8 C-HR Honest John's Real MPG quotes around 58 mpg.

[TonyHSD]

1 hour ago, philip42h said:

The official WLTP figures are a very good guide for our hybrids. For the 1.8 C-HR Honest John's Real MPG quotes around 58 mpg.

This is more realistic. 
I would say around 50mpg winter and 60mpg summer time, +/-5. 
I see people mistakenly thought the displays figures for an average mpg are the real representation of what car is doing over longer period of time.
70+ mpg on A roads from these cars even if you are you trying to do it is not very realistic, unless there are road works and you are mostly be doing 50mph or less. 

[forkingabout]

Here's my July average figures - it's a 2 litre hybrid, A/C on all the time, it's mainly only doing short trips of less then 8 miles & I'm not trying to drive it economically.

I'm more then happy with the figures.

[Haliotis]

I find these occasional high mpg figures when on an A road or m-way at quiet times, and when the car is in cruise control.  This is when the vehicle is at a smooth set speed without any influence from the driver’s foot on the accelerator pedal.   And they are only “occasional” - normal traffic conditions do not allow such smooth automated control over significant distances.

[AndyRC]

The CEO used to have a 21 plate 2.0 Excel as her business car and she did about 80% motorway work , long term  it averaged around 52 mpg and could go to high 50s with more town driving involved. 

[Perfection]

Many thanks for the typical data. My Verso diesel 2.0 currently gives me 60 mpg in summer on the A roads, 80 miles each day. 

[TonyHSD]

2 hours ago, Perfection said:

Many thanks for the typical data. My Verso diesel 2.0 currently gives me 60 mpg in summer on the A roads, 80 miles each day. 

Hybrids usually beats diesels and petrols in towns and slow B roads where they can remain longer in pure ev drives. On motorway speeds they are close to sensibly driven diesels and just tiny better than petrols only cars. 
If you are about to change your current car hybrid makes the most sense over a diesel powered car for few reasons, drivability, reliability and at the end efficiency as in some cases the diesel can actually beat the hybrid, but those are in very limited cases at high speed motorway drives 80+mph 

[Perfection]

I am keeping my diesel Verso as second car. I will be getting a hybrid as I think it's the best choice as I gathered. But one thing I do worry is about the target by thieves as it's so easy to steal. Not sure what is the story now on CAN theft. I had stopped following it.