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just wondering what kind of mpg do you get from your 325i motorsport?

Hello!!

Not that I have collected my new 325i tourer yet but I have been told around 27mpg urban and 34mpg on motorways

Hopefully thats about right or I am in trouble!!

Dj

To be honest it depends on your driving style.
i can get anything between 18mpg and 26mpg round town. and anything on a run but seem to average about 34/35 then.

I have a heavy right foot though.

27 Urban! good luck

They don't like traffic, if you're sitting about in town or on and off the throttle you'll be luck to get 20mpg. The 325i is always happiest on the open road, on long trips where the engine is up to temp and top gear is used alot expect mid to high 30's.

my mum has an e46 323i with all the vanos n shit on it and that mainly gets used around town.. the mpg works out about 23mpg average...

My M50 powered 325i does around 20mpg around town, but its main purpose in life right now is a 12 mile round town twice a week. Its the constant start/stops of city driving that kill the mpg

Absolutely.

Round town is a killer, keeping those 6 pistons going up and down

On a run, it's not TOO bad!

in town i get 40 to 45 from a Ԛ£10.00 so that works out to about 15 to the gallon on all my 325s, aint worked it out yet but if some of the brains on here can do it for me, i put in last week Ԛ£43.00 in the cab went to winchester and back then riding around town till it finished and got 320 miles to iti think it works out to about 25 mpg this is driving at - - - ish just cruising really.

mid to high 30's on a 325i my arse, i'm lucky to get 28,29 on the m-way driving 70ish in my sport. Or is this cos the gearing is different to all the other 325's?

Well when I had the SE I once managed to get about 33mpg out of it by limping along at 60mph on the inside lane for an hour, didnt dare brake or touch the throttle slightly!

Very tedious, and that was with std gearbox and 3.64 LSD

So not surprised at those figures Si

1989 325i sport, 20mpg around town or 25-27mpg on motorway or longer journeys. Although in general to achieve 25-27mpg I would have to keep the speed steady and not go above 65-70mph, which none of us would do being the legal speed limit !!

Cheers
ps 1997 E36 328 touring 31mpg around town, 35-37mpg on longer journeys

I have a 325i touring not motorsport and on a long run, 300 miles or so, half motorway half a roads have managed 27mpg but likewise I dont tend to hang around and am always kicking the auto down

might also be the heavy clutches that get a bit much in start stop traffic also

M5Pilot wrote:Ive owned 6 e30's, al the same, the most economical are the 2.7's.

Oh really

M5Pilot wrote:
In traffic they are the worst thing ever though!

Not quite!!!

I got stuck in one of those rolling road blocks on the M6 near Penrith back when the fuel strikes were on,I was driving this.............

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It was only a 2.3,but in traffic had a serious thirst problem!
I used over twenty quids worth to drive 20 miles!

I was not happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes thats me stood behind the car,pre Jesus styleee!

A lot of my driving in my Motorsport was around town, and I used to get about 18-20 mpg. I used to fill up about 40 litres and get about 160-180 miles out of it.

But when I got out on a good run, where I was doing decent speeds, it used to do a lot better.

For the Rockingham trip, I filled up and managed to get 260 miles

After a lot of calculating, I felt that if I drove at 60-70, it was the best sort of way of getting good mpg.

320i auto, urban or on a run never got over 18mpg, moral of the story, dont get an auto unless your rich and like cruising

Bharat wrote:For the Rockingham trip, I filled up and managed to get 260 miles

I managed to get just over 300 miles from my 318 but I think I was on vapours at the end, lucky there was a hill to the petrol station I ended up coasting in just in case

I drove down to dorset in my 325i (270 miles round trip) and managed it on 1 full tank!!! around town it's between 18-24mpg.

Maybe my ownership will be short lived !!! ha.ha , I have 26 miles to drive to work which is mainly open countryside so hopefully it will be managable?!?!? Out of intrest then what should I expect if I tow the race car in an enclosed trailer with it??