My first really long drive

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alanp
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Started our holiday ( postponed from last year) so a long drive down to Devon from York, adaptive cruise virtually all the way, absolutely brilliant love it, I’ll never have ordinary cruise again, I didn’t thrash it , just set cruise to 70, and took it nice and steady, mpg showed 58.6 on the rip computer, comfy seats and relatively quiet, just a bit of tyre noise on rougher tarmac, even the normally hit and miss traffic sign was faultless, might try sport mode for the way back…
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Enjoy yourselves Alan. 🤞for a bit of decent weather.
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Post by Mike »

58.6 you have to be happy with that.
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Will be interresting to see how close you get to 58.6 in sport mode on the way back
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I might chicken out and just use normal mode..😁
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alanp wrote: Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:58 pm Started our holiday ( postponed from last year) so a long drive down to Devon from York, adaptive cruise virtually all the way, absolutely brilliant love it, I’ll never have ordinary cruise again, I didn’t thrash it , just set cruise to 70, and took it nice and steady, mpg showed 58.6 on the rip computer, comfy seats and relatively quiet, just a bit of tyre noise on rougher tarmac, even the normally hit and miss traffic sign was faultless, might try sport mode for the way back…
Have to agree with you Alan on the adaptive cruise. Now I’ve got used to it I love it. Wish I’d specced it on my new van that’s due soon.
I’d do Sport on the way home. Then you have a proper A/B test on the same run. Don’t think it’ll make much difference on consumption to be honest though. It doesn’t on mine. Have a great holiday!
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Adaptive cruise is an absolute good send,love it on my fiesta,makes long distance motorway driving and absolute breeze dont it
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Post by Stoopo »

Not used the adaptive cruise yet but I will when I go on a long trip.

It’s hell of a drive from York. We did Cornwall two years ago but stopped over a couple of nights in Sutton Coalfield (to watch athletics).

Great you enjoyed the ride.

Sport mode didn’t affect my mpg that much on our drive to Scarborough the other day. I had it on going out and normal coming home. I would imagine in cruise it won’t make much difference at all.
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I agree, haven't seen any real MPG difference between Normal, Eco, Sport modes. Just that Sport makes it easier to use significantly more fuel. The other modes take much more effort 😉.
I find a good compromise is Sport with engine stop/start manually re-enabled.
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JFDIT wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 2:25 pm I agree, haven't seen any real MPG difference between Normal, Eco, Sport modes. Just that Sport makes it easier to use significantly more fuel. The other modes take much more effort 😉.
I find a good compromise is Sport with engine stop/start manually re-enabled.
Thanks for that info. I was beginning to come to that conclusion myself. The car does feel a lot better in sport mode though.

Does anyone know what criteria has to be fulfilled for the system to switch off one cylinder and do the driving modes have any significant bearing on this?
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