Impressive MPG!!

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Good commentary Jeeves. Whenever I find myself in "frugal" mode I remind myself it's a Porsche Goddammit, who cares! Then I rediscover driving pleasure.
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No one who buys a Porsche really cares about MPG or emissions.
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No one who buys a Porsche really cares about MPG or emissions.  


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No one who buys a Porsche really cares about MPG or emissions.  


+1 emissions a little though after all who knows the real story
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No one who buys a Porsche really cares about MPG or emissions.  


So why do so many people buy diesels? 😏Dandock2016-12-20 10:54:38
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This is a Porsche forum right?
So amazing MPG is not exactly why you buy one of these machines.
As Simon (WingCo) will testify when you take part in a Register Run organised by the 991 Register of the Porsche Club GB achieving over 20 mpg in a 911 usually means you lost the convoy😠 As for the Macan, in the Register Drives with a GTS you would be averaging arounfd 18 mpg and in a Diesel about 25mpg. 👍


Well having said all the above these cars can achieve impressive economy even if the available performance is used.
In 2015, I took my 911 (991) GTS (now sold) on a Porsche GB Club trip to the factories in Germany, the first half of the journey was in rain and generally awful conditions but at lunchtime things improved so the drive from Bamberg (where we refuelled half way between Leipzig and Stuttgart) covered the last 142 miles to the hotel car park in 1 hour and 12 minutes, that's an average of just under 120mph, mostly Autobahn followed by a  crawl in the Stuttgart rush hour for 10 minutes. However given the cruising speed which was up around 120 mph maxing out somewhere on the route at just over 140, I thought the 26.6 MPG was rather impressive for the 911 given the speeds Thumbs Up and this result was for the full 280 miles. A typical safe range was 350 miles although on that day we were just under 300 hence the refuel half way. It's actually quite difficult to go at really high speeds on the Autobahn due to the trafficEmbarrassed



Well, I agree with adrian991 and think it is worth putting things in perspective.

My 911 (991.2) which has now covered about 3300miles, returns about 35mpg when steadily cruising on the motorway at the legal limit Smile.
Driving round A roads but at a steady pace, it drops to about 24mpg.
Around town with stop/start, it's low 20's.
My driving style, while not burning tyres at traffic lights, is not sedate.

As has already been said by several people, I did not even consider fuel consumption when I went to a 911 - initially I was all set to get either a petrol or turbo Macan, and even then, I was not thinking of mpg's.
In all this, I am not so much pleased, but surprised and impressed by the consumption given the power on tap.



If I can add to this little thread... My 991.1 Carrera was actually first owned by Adrian991 for the first two years or so of its life. During my time with it, I covered around 11,000 miles in 8 months. Most of this mileage was motorway and dual carriageway driving, either to Kent to see my daughters or to my girlfriend's place in Cheltenham. The most fun mileage was covered in the Yorkshire Dales with PCGB! Over my time with the car, the fuel consumption averaged low to mid 30s, despite 'occasionally' straying over 70mph .

This average MPG was way better than what I achieved in my 2.0 Macan on similar journeys. In fact I don't actually get much better MPG from my current petrol 1.2 Peugeot 208 hire car. Maybe something to do with smaller engines having to work harder to maintain 'reasonable progress' over my typical journeys...? Wing Commander2016-12-20 11:12:50
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No one who buys a Porsche really cares about MPG or emissions.  


I don't quite agree with this, Scotmac. It's not that we don't care about emissions/pollution etc, but that maybe it's not our Number One priority.

Many of us are pleased when our Porsches deliver reasonable fuel consumption, while at the same time delivering impressive performance and a fantastic overall ownership experience! If we can have something approaching the best of both worlds, we'll happily take that!

And as Dandock says, the SD is the biggest selling Macan by a country mile! And I'm confident that the diesel variants of the Cayenne and Panamera will also be the top sellers. So all of these diesel buyers must be paying quite a bit of attention to the MPG aspect of their cars... Wing Commander2016-12-20 11:22:09
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ScotMac wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:50 am No one who buys a Porsche really cares about MPG or emissions.
It is good that Porsche AG takes that responsibility. We will see even more smaller engines and less cylinders and the usage of turbos.
I think Porsche owners are caring for the nature and low emissions. I picked my Macan with that in mind.
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