No, but there are some areas that are much flatter than others. Brockholes brow is taking it to the extremes a bit though.A couple of years ago going to Mancy airport to get a flight with three adults two kids and a boot full of luggage. I reset the trip computer on the move at the top of Brockholes brow going down to the motorway. How pleased was i to be doing 94.6 MPG at the bottom of the hill. Soon changed though, average there and back was 34 MPG. Unfortunately the world is not flat. But it would be helpful if it was all downhill.
This is the thing, our P38 normally averages about 14 mpg because it's nearly all town driving. When I used it to collect the classic it was 95% motorway and I was quite lucky with the traffic as not too many holdups. I found that a lot of the time I was hardly pressing on the accelerator, and when I saw that a hill was coming up I would increase speed slightly to get some more momentum so that I didn't have to use as much power up the hill. I checked the computer mpg against the brim to brim fill up when I refuelled and the computer was pretty much spot on. I was surprised it achieved 22 mpg going and overall 18.7 but it just shows how you drive and having a well maintained car make a big difference. I have a Volvo S60 D5 185bhp, on a long motorway run I can do over 60mpg keeping at 70-80 mph which for an old school diesel 5 cylinder 2.4 I don't think is too shabby!
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