I had to take my scooby to work today as the old diesel was in for a service. I thought id drive carefully to see how many miles per gallon i could get and for £11 i got 79 miles. That works out to 27.73 miles per gallon to me for 12.95 litres of fuel. I think thats pretty good for a scooby. I only used the turbo a few times and only went over 80 once. Whats your thoughts.

 

I think it's Groundhog Day, personally.

 

Are you saying this kind off post has been ragged to death then?

 

Yeah, mate. They rarely drop off the front page before another one starts.


Perhaps they should just kill off old lags like me.

 

You know deep, deep down you love reading MPG stats Bubba
(Personal best: 30mpg MY03 STi ... slip streaming milk floats is the key)

 

My best MPG was on the way back from castle coombe last year.

The car was on the back of the recovery truck after I burnt the clutch out

 

Years ago a mate of mine had an old Saab 99 automatic. It broke down miles away from his home and he phoned me to ask if I could collect it using my Golf GTI and his dads trailer. I duly obliged and on the journey back to his home was playing with the trip computer on the Golf. We discovered that the GTI towing a trailer with a dead Saab on board was using less petrol than the Saab would have used being driven over the same route

 

Whoops!! and you still probably got poorer MPG than the recovery truck!

NS04

 

Ouch! £11 for 80 miles? In the US, I pay maybe the equivelent of £4 for 80 miles, and we think gas prices are high right now.

 

Do they do Subarus in the US or are they personal imports?

 

They do sell Subarus officially over here, but it wasn't until recently that they started selling US-spec performance models. We had no turbo'd Subarus at all until '87, no WRXs until '02. The STi made it over here in '04, but its a different model than the Euro or Japan spec 2.0L, its a turbo'd 2.5.

Personally importing a car over here is extermely difficult, and there is a good chance your JDM import will end up in the crusher unless you spend ten's of thousands of dollars.

Most Subarus in the US are Outback models - do they sell those in the UK?

 

£4 for 11 litres of fuel
you lucky,lucky git's
the petrol price's in the uk make me sick,we ought to do what you american's do,and invade all the middle eastern countrys for there oil supplys

 

Ironically... gas (or petrol, as you blokes might say ) has increased in price since the Iraq war... about 40%.

 

Quite - I used to tow a race prep fiest on a hefty trailer, and got 26mpg from a 2L Mondeo. I get 15 from the Scoob

Actually considered renting a trailer and towing the Scoob 270 miles to Japfest, costing less than driving it there.

 

So whats the normal or the best for a scooby?