Cost of Refuelling a Range Rover.

[Ming the Merciless]

I average around 16mpg on highway and less than 5mpg on town stop start driving (very rarely do I go into a town)

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[Dadam]

Doesn't matter how big the tank is, you pay the same based on what you use. If you only ever half fill the tank it makes no difference at all.
If you fill it it's more frequent smaller fill ups vs less frequent bigger ones. The amount you use is based on your driving and mpg *

* Alright I'm aware of the number of pedants on here, so to head them off, yes I accept if you drive round all the time with a full tank you are using a bit more fuel lugging the weight of the extra fuel.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I accept if you drive round all the time with a full tank you are using a bit more fuel lugging the weight of the extra fuel.

I'm not sure that's significant. And if you compare that to the amount of extra distance to go to the fuel pump 2 or 3 times, even less so

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

I used to own a Ford Mustang which had a paltry 55 litre tank. On a really good day, downhill with a tail wind, I could get around 200 miles of a full tank.

I filled one up, from near empty, at a ‘gas station’ in Florida back in 2007 and it cost me £11!

 

[cyberknight]

My corolla has a 43 litre tank , with careful driving i can get around 55- 60 mpg . I once got 73 mpg going to work but that was extreme driving with very gentle acceleration and slowing because there was no one else about .
Cost to refill currently for a full tank is about £65 and should get 500 ish miles but the fuel gauge says 400 although i have read its very conservative .

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I'm not sure that's significant. And if you compare that to the amount of extra distance to go to the fuel pump 2 or 3 times, even less so

I can tell the difference between driving with a full tank compared to a quarter. Racing teams measure there fuel so there is just enough to complete the race, and that is on cars and bikes with way more power than road vehicles.

 

[Bristolian]

I'm not sure that's significant. And if you compare that to the amount of extra distance to go to the fuel pump 2 or 3 times, even less so

I used to think that too until a Concorde engineer showed me the calculations they make to decide the right amount of fuel for a trans-Atlantic flight. x lbs of fuel to get the aircraft there plus y lbs to get the fuel there +z lbs to get the extra fuel there+ etc., etc. He had a circular slide rule to do the calculations on. An extreme set of circumstances but it really mounted up. Even then I was glad it wasn't my credit card paying the bill

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

My corolla has a 43 litre tank , with careful driving i can get around 55- 60 mpg . I once got 73 mpg going to work but that was extreme driving with very gentle acceleration and slowing because there was no one else about .
Cost to refill currently for a full tank is about £65 and should get 500 ish miles but the fuel gauge says 400 although i have read its very conservative .

My Kodiaq's fairly economical, and can show 740mile range on a full tank

 

[Electric_Andy]

I used to think that too until a Concorde engineer showed me the calculations they make to decide the right amount of fuel for a trans-Atlantic flight. x lbs of fuel to get the aircraft there plus y lbs to get the fuel there +z lbs to get the extra fuel there+ etc., etc. He had a circular slide rule to do the calculations on. An extreme set of circumstances but it really mounted up. Even then I was glad it wasn't my credit card paying the bill

Yes I understand that. I just saw something on (was it Mythbusters or something similar?) that said an extra 30kg of fuel in a car doesn't make much difference, especially in towns where you're not often going above 40. And on motorways when you're more often at a constant speed, so the speed is significant but not necessarily the tiny weight difference

 

[gbb]

Former MD of the company I used to work for had a Bentley Continental and an even bigger brick shape Bentley before that. The guys that used to take it to fill up for him (in work time, on the company account of course) said it was always minimum of £100 EACH TIME, often TWO OR THREE times a week (eek).

 

[Bristolian]

Yes I understand that. I just saw something on (was it Mythbusters or something similar?) that said an extra 30kg of fuel in a car doesn't make much difference, especially in towns where you're not often going above 40. And on motorways when you're more often at a constant speed, so the speed is significant but not necessarily the tiny weight difference

Yes, I guess the weight of fuel for Concorde was more of a significant proportion of the weight of the aircraft that 30 litres of fuel in a 2.5 ton car.