ukscooby

Hello all,

After a good 5 years absense i'm back on and asking questions!

I'm coming off of a work car scheme next Feb and my wife and I quite fancy a UK spec classic shape turbo (wagon or saloon).

Good old autotrader states the car will do 29-30 mpg combined. Now the one thing that is holding me back a bit is the economy (or lack of?!). If I can get 28-30 regularly then i'll be a happy chappy, but is this realistic?

Assuming I find a well looked after, low mileage car and i'm on a 20 mile trip to and from work with some decent flowing 40/50 and national speed limit roads should I hit the magic 30?

There will be regular motorway trips of 50miles+ to visit family too, what should the car do on a good run sat at 70mph? What do you other peeps get out of standard UK models?

Also, mileage - I won't be buying a car that doesn't have a decent service history, but are people running cars with well over 100k miles quite happily?

Alex

Proby521

iTrader: (1)

We have a '99 UK Turbo as the other halfs car. She uses it daily for the school run (prob only about 10 miles total everyday). I've never really clocked the mpg on a daily basis (too scared to! lol),together with a few trips to the shops etc shes using between£20-£25 week. I can't see she gets anywhere near 30mpg. If I take it on a run to the inlaws (without giving it the berries all the way!), which is about a 110mile round trip, it costs about £20, which is about 27mpg.

Timwinner

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I use my MY99 UK2000 as my daily at the moment, First off it has 115k on the clock and it feels as tight as a new car. Faultless history seems to have kept it in check.

Secondly the mileage, I do about 20 - 30 miles day, It cost me about £55 to fill up and it last about a week and a half.
Not sure what that is in MPG but it is affordable and a lot of fun.
I think you have to assume that its not going to be great, 25 mpg would be a fair estimate but you enjoy every single one of those miles.

30 MPG sounds like a "never on boost" mileage claim, and as you must know if you have the power from time to time you feel like you have to use it.

stevie333

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P1,get about 230-250miles between filling up,usually costs about £50 a month,i do a lot of short trips which i suppose does,nt help,usually works out at 24mpg,which in my opinion,isnt bad,i do have an odd blast as well,and when you do its worth every penny.Just to add as well,i,ve had 3 scoobys in ten years and other than bits i had absolutely no need to buy i.e BS,and servicing,they have cost me a grand total of nothing.If you make sure you get a good one you wont regret it a bit.

stevie333

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Just to add to the above,anyone who,s getting 30mpg in any impreza with a turbo is driving it wrong unless its all on the motorway at exactly 70mph,like i said,i,ve had 3 and i,ve never had that.i think the best i had was 28,and that was in the p1,driving sensibly up to Scotland and back.

bob r

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The Classics are great but watch out for Clio Sports. lol

172sport

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18 - 20mpg at best here

skid11

iTrader: (1)

Classic Wagon.. 20mpg tops..great car though..very quick and I dont know any other car of that age can give you the same performance for the money..if you want fuel economy look elsewhere..

RobsyUK

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used to do stop start every day 3times a day and would manage to get 40 to a £10. It was hard not to race though.
I took it very easy on a motorway with a steady 70 a 80mph n got 350 to £50
not bad at all...

markjmd

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Classic UK Turbo wagon, with fair amount of mods, and I don't often get much less than the autotrader quoted mileage. If you can avoid too many 2-mile trips down to the shops on a cold engine and your car's well-maintained, you should be able to get around the same.

midnight

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I have a 1999 UK wagon,which had 130,000 on the clock but had only had 2 owners with FSH,and the last owner was a 62 year old gent who had owned the car for seven years and royal bank of scotland had it before him.
The car was tottally standard and still runs as sweet as the twin turbo'd legacy i had before that,which had 32,000 miles.
If your driving round the town expect to see 18 - 22 mpg,as these cars were not built for pottering round town. As said before if i'am on a run on the motorway and hold it at 65 -70(which is hard ,as they do more than that in 3rd gear) then i have managed 25 -28 mpg. Take it out on a track day and expect to see 8- 10 mpg.
Only way i could see someone getting 30 mpg would be if they drove the car off boost everywhere,which sort of defeats the object of buying a turbocharged motor . if its economy your after then the non turbo version will hit 30 mpg comfortably,lower emmissions and cheaper insurance.

L.J.F

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i have a my99 uk wagon and the most ive got from a full tank is just over 300mls then fuel light came on, i reckon i could have got maybe another 40-50mls but filled it up again. That was over the course of a week traveling 15mls to work and back with urban driving aswell! When cold the auto choke on scoob's is wasteful so just letting the car tick over til rev's are below 1k helps the fuel bill, also i keep revs below 3k for the first 10mls of every journey til the oil is at running temp! not bad mpg considering the car has mods

car currently has 92k on the clock and is going strong, there are scoob's on these forums with over 200k and there are still going well! as long as you look after it and insure its serviced every 10k then there can go forever. If you decide to buy one make sure that you get a full service and fit a new oil pump and timing belt at the same time

ukscooby

Thanks to everyone for the replies, you've confirmed my suspicions! 25-28 would be achievable but expect less on 'an open road'!

Hasn't put me and the wife off though, and it's good to hear they stay nice and tight over the 100k mile mark.

Ste98Turbo

Classic 248bhp Type RA, for £20 of V-Power am getting 70miles, thats mixed driving but mainly shortish runs with no motorway driving......its worth it

Big Pete

Not looked at the around & about mpg for a while now but it was mid 20's.

When last we went on a bit of a run we averaged 16 mpg

Anubis

it normally takes £50 to fill my tank and i normally get 200miles out of it

tjmatt

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I drive mine 50 miles a day and get >300 miles to every tank with careful driving most the time and the odd blast. In the summer it works out about 30mpg and about 27 in mid winter - they're not good from cold and lots of short trips will reduce this somewhat.

If you're very careful and just pottering around on 50-60 mph roads doing reasonable length trips you can get 33+mpg...

172sport

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Taking it steady then? On track I see 7mpg......................

Mark T2000

I get about 20 - 25 mpg out of my slightly modded 98 turbo 2000. It has 106k and still drives and runs lovely

Anubis

driven 60 miles today and the needle hasnt even moved, how odd

DEEDEE

MY99 Saloon doing 12/14 miles per 5 days, 75,000 miles, standard UK car, uses £20 of fuel

dj219957

93 wrx, consistant 230 miles to 40 litres. i do a 16 mile each way commute 5 days a week with often thrapping.

hodgy0_2

i ran a my00 wagon for 11 months and in that time did 26K (from 96k to 122k)miles so i was pretty (read very) conscious of mpg

most of my driving was motorway/A road -- and I defiantly got over 30mpg, although this was still to little and I sold it

adman73

I've had my Classic Wagon for 7 years now. Used it as my everyday car for about 4 years (approx 30 miles commute to work, mix of A & B roads) and averaged 24 to 26 mpg. For the last 3 years it has been a weekend car and I do around 20 to 22 mpg.

I found it a great car overall but if you want to enjoy the benefits of the turbo expect to pay for it at the pumps.

WRX_Dazza

as said above, if you want economy your on the wrong forum mate.

i rarely get much difference from going steady to giving it some beans.

(16-20) mpg

ps: you cant go steady for too long

mervil

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Worked this out yeasterday!! Full tank, drove 150miles before I refuelled with 26.5 litres, so on this occasion (80mph motorway driving with 30miles of town driving) I managed 25MPG. Not bad for my 2.1 STi with 450bhp