What car do you have and how far would you get on £60 petrol?

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Car is getting old (2006 Golf 1.4) but recently it seems to do SO few miles. Costs £60 to fill the tank, that does around 350 miles. Only lasts me about 10 days... Is that a normal amount? I feel like I need a more economical car!

Looking at getting a Skoda Fabia or Toyota Auris next year.

BMW, and sadly, not very far
I love it though and DH has a company car which I'm insured to drive so anywhere long distance and we take his.

Merc E 2.4 diesel
Tank costs about £70 and gets me 400 miles

My best cars for mpg were fords - focus and galaxy. Loved the galaxy 640 miles to the tank, 2l diesel. think it’s a 70l tank so about £85-90 to fill now.

2014 Renault Clio, somewhat over 500 miles. I'm not sure as I have only had it a few months but a full tank costs about that and the dashboard then says I have a range in excess of 500 miles. I drove a huge 7 seater people carrier before that. I still smile at how economical the Clio is in comparison.

06 plate 1.6 diesel zsara Picasso. £60-£65 to fill from empty, lasts me 4-6 weeks doing lots of short runs. Averages about 45mpg doing this. On motorway runs it averages 60-65mpg.

2010 Micra, costs just over £40 to fill, does about 330 miles before the red light comes on. If my sums are right, I'd get 495 approx out of £60.

I have a Lexus NX Hybrid and I would get about 475 miles for £60. Around town and for journeys of less than 30mph, I'm on electric. Even on the motorway I can be doing 50mph on electric. I've had to change the way I drive to get the most out of it. A full tank of petrol is 45 litres and lasts me between 2-3 weeks.

Golf estate TDi
Around £55 to fill completely
500-600 miles

Renault clio. £60 of petrol is a full tank and a bit and would do it about 650 miles

2 litre bmw 1 series. Cost £75 to fill and get around 550 miles

Is it bad that I have no idea at all? I fill it up when it's getting empty, I think it costs about £60? Then I do some driving and it needs filling up again. No clue how far I've driven in between.

BMW Msport. £86 per 300 miles

Octavia estate. Petrol. 67plate.
Between £50 and £60 to fill.
Approx 400 miles.

It's shit tbh, I'm really not impressed with the mpg. I was told it would be better than the diesel estate I was trading in. They lied!

2016 Volvo xc60 awd diesel. £75 to fill up. Does about 450 around town, up to 600 if all motorway

10yo diesel Ford Fusion. £60 would get me about 650 miles of normal driving, or 700+ if long distances at 50/60mph. It’s an old car but phenomenally cheap to run and maintain!

Nissan Juke 1.6 turbo. 45 litres to fill at 1.30p/litre which is around £59 and I get 280 miles :) never goes above 30mpg lol

04 plate diesel Zafira - a tankful is about £60 & I generally get 500 miles for that. I do a lot of fairly short journeys though - would probably get more miles with longer journeys

I have a wee C1 and £60 of petrol would be over a tank and I’d get around 700 miles I think? My average is 66 per gallon

Have a 2008 diesel Ford Galaxy. Only had it one and a half weeks but £50 got us about 330 miles in the first week with mainly city driving.

Just put £40 in today and the computer is saying there's 290 miles in the tank. So £60 should should get us between 390 and 430 miles, looking at both those figures.

Used to have a 2007 diesel Chrysler Voyager then a P reg petrol Toyota Previa (thankfully only for a year as expensive to run). The Previa did half the miles the Galaxy does, literally! £40 petrol got about 140 miles! The gas guzzling American nearly 2 ton Voyager was better than the Previa, but nowhere near as good as the Galaxy.

So our 7 seater Galaxy is slightly more efficient than your Golf. (We have 4 children so couldn't have smaller cars, to do that we'd need two cars so would be using double the fuel!) Would like to give it a good run up the motorway and see how it does fuel wise there.

Husband is suggesting you consider looking at Nissan Qashqai, Ford Focus, 1.6 Golf, Audi A3 (but more expensive to buy), Citroen C4, Vauxhall Astra as well as the Skoda Fabia and Toyato Auris. Gives you a lot more choice.

I have a 2017 fiesta and it doesn't take £60 of petrol! It'd be enough to do a tank and half, about 600 miles and would last about 3 weeks!

£60=$78

2007 Ford Explorer 4.0L V6: That would be 1.75 tanks worth and would manage about 550miles at 21MPG.

2007 GMC Sierra 1500 5.3L V8: 1.25 tanks, 500 miles at 17MPG.

DW has a Toyota Auris, which does about 65 mpg at the motorway speed limit. £60 works out around 600 miles.

Prius. Current readout says 66.8mpg over the last 1.5yrs.
Costs 40-something to fill up, and it reckons it can do 600 miles on that.

Peugot 208 (2015 plate)
£60 is more than a tank
Around 500 to 600miles for £60 fuel
but might need to buy Ad-blue at some point.

Depends how much you are paying for petrol as it's gone up a lot recently. A full tank of my Peugeot 107 was £35 and it's now £40 (so would expect same for a Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo as they have the same tank).

Depends also on what sort of driving and speeds - someone doing lots of short commutes and rarely going over 40 mph will get different economy to someone doing lots of motorway.

But, on my full tank of circa £35-£40 I will get somewhere between 350 and 400.

Golf 1.6 diesel, would get 600 miles out of £60 of fuel doing mostly motorway driving. My previous petrol equivalent was around 450 miles (but older car).