2010 MT Cars have 3 trip computers - Same as the previous cars there is trip 1 and trip 2, then there is what LR calls Auto-trip. Auto trip is quite clever as it measures your average MPG, ave speed and trip distance on a journey by journey basis ie from start-up to switch off. Additionally there is also an instantaneous MPG. On 2010 these can also be converted to metric by changing a choice in the TFT dash menus..................... I used to use trip A to be "over the life of the car" and trip B as the tankful to tankful but with the average per journey now I don't bother resetting either trips A or B. On my next trip south (a nearly 500 mile drive) I will also run the numbers through my own spreadsheet (it's been lying dormant for the last year or so!) and see what the car does on a brim to brim basis and see what the B trip does for the same distance. I learned long ago that car-makers fuel computers always make the car seem to be more economical than it really is, my RRS's were generally 2mpg less fuel efficient by my spreadsheet compared to the trip computer over the same distance.
When I'm driving I don't hang about or drive with any special technique BUT I do try to drive at a speed that is as fast as I can without using the brakes and I try to use the cruise control as much as possible.Not having the adaptive cruise that I had on the RRS is a bind as that was quite brilliant and seems to be much more progressive at applying engine power than the conventional one on the TDV8 FFRR's which seems to throw the throttle wide open as soon as you click resume or the + button. I also drive at the speed limit of the road I am on - OK it might seem pipe and slippers stuff but it doesn't waste fuel! BUT I do like a blast when it is a suitable road for doing it....................... in 32 years of driving I haven't yet got a speeding ticket, even when I had a TVR I managed to avoid one! 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes
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