1.2 puretech 110 mpg

[RichardL]

The whole MPG thing is really interesting, my DS3's engine was slightly different to yours, I had the old 1.2 naturally aspirated 82bhp block, I've gone from that to a 1.6 turbo and I'm averaging exactly the same MPG.

This could be down to driving style or route but I think it's down to the fact that I had to be pretty heavy footed to get it going anywhere.

Over 13k miles in my DS3 I averaged 34.9mpg, over the first 2k miles in my A-Class I've averaged 34.6mpg. Granted my peak mpg in my DS3 was higher but on average my wallet is being emptied at the same rate.

Edit: noticed the metrics in my post are slightly wonky, the average is over the last 10 fuel ups (note not all of these would be empty to full tanks). The distanced covered in the A-Class is 2k miles and the distance covered in the DS3 to create the average is 3.4k miles.



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[cyclone]

You bring up an interesting point in that a small engine doesn't necessarily give better milage than a bigger engine. While a larger engine uses more fuel use by being bigger it can also be run at lower rpm which saves fuel. A smaller engine may save fuel by being smaller but one has to work it harder to stay comfortably in the flow of traffic. This would tend to negate some of the perceived mpg benefit over the larger engine. Naturally these are generalities and driving that small engine with fuel economy in mind will return the best mpg at the expense of provoking frustration and road rage from other drivers.