Hi,

In 10 months ownership, the car has travelled approx 8,000 miles (all on super unleaded, mostly on Shell VPower Nitro+).

I've only just started thinking about how many miles we've done in it and wondering how much that will have cost because in the last week, we've made 4 trips to filling stations and those trips have cost £306.78. Like my service and maintenance records, I've got all the [fuel] receipts!

We don't drive the SC hard and we don't fully exploit it's capacity. Nor do we drive around trying to squeeze what we can out of the mpg. It's 'just' driven carefully and 'normally'.

Wondering if our mileage is highish for one of these or not?

Why V Power or Super unleaded my friend? Do you find any difference from using ordinary petrol? I know its been discussed on here once or twice before and not really found it of any benefit...

Ahem... truthfully? ... I couldn't say if it's better than normal unleaded Craig. The car does run velvet smooth though although having never driven an SC until getting this one and having never really used normal unleaded in it, I've nothing to compare it with but I just thought that as I was given well informed info that this stuff is better for the car, then for the sake of a few pounds per tank, I might as well feed it with 'the best' stuff.

6000 miles in 2 1/2 months running well and everything works nff on diagnostics long may it remain

Oh and meant to say it gets looked after well but driven hard so a tank of fuel gives me about 240 to 260 miles

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@Sandyt - that's a lot in 2.5 months for any car!

I've read a few posts from people who seem to buy the SC as weekend cars or who do low miles, hence the post.

Sandyt wrote:

Oh and a tank of fuel gives me about 240 to 260 miles

Blimey, I get more than double that out of my 4.4 V8 diesel driven hard including some short journeys

Likewise in my TDV8, which is why the SC had to go! Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

pld118 wrote:

@Sandyt - that's a lot in 2.5 months for any car!

I've read a few posts from people who seem to buy the SC as weekend cars or who do low miles, hence the post.

I use it as my daily car and do approx 110 miles each way to work do 3 days a week there also have an xjr and a p38 but of them all prefer the s/c never look at fuel bills have always run v8 petrol and if I ever compromise on that will start cycling

when I first got mine I ended up doing about 4.3k in 5 weeks. it made my ears water watching the odometer rack em up. down to about 8k a year now

About 8000 a year as well........running LPG and normally on Tesco Momentum 99..... Stolen / Gone: 2006MY Supercharged LPG Autobiography - Zambezi Silver with Sand/Jet/Jet Oxford Leather.....

Yep, another approx. 8,000 miles per year here as well. Si. <This is my name.

I eat rat poison.

A man ain't truly been insulted until he stands buck naked in front of a woman and she didn't even notice. Or care.

I do 15 - 18,000 miles a year in mine & always run it on super unleaded, mainly Tesco 99