Fill up when the fuel low light comes on, make a note of the litres entered (thirty as its a 68 litre tank), then zero the trip. Then run till the fuel light is on again. Strangely the trip computer is actually quite accurate and agrees with the figure worked out manually.

Just spoke to the dealer. News to me but using cruise control can increase fuel consumption !

I agree, as long as you drive carefully and minimise weight and use of a/c, etc it should get close to the book figures. Roof rails at the very most should cause about 5% degridation of performance (there are many ultra fuel efficient cars on the road with roof rails fitted !) I think i'll take...

Alright Victor Meldrew. I dont actually expect to get the same figures the manufacturer quotes, but I would of thought that with careful driving it should get 85 - 90% of what is quoted, which is what I have seen with previous vehicles. An efficiency loss of 25% sounds like a fault to me. The...

Hi, I bought a new Freelander 2 GS TD4 Manual 2011 MY before xmas . Im now 1200 miles in and have started looking at the fuel economy. The book says a combined figure of 45.6 mpg, but im actually getting approx 35 mpg which is quite disappointing. Is anyone else getting disappointing figures...