I can only get 15 mpg in 8 months and 6k miles. 17 mpg is but a distant memory...

 

Beware that what Macan displays is consistently atleast 1-2 MPG above what I calculate myself.

With cold weather I am getting a paltry 16 mpg based on my calculations... My MPG has been going in one direction (down) while at the same time my fun factor has been going in the opposite direction.0

I am more at ease with it now as one cannot put a price on smiles...

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Beware that what Macan displays is consistently atleast 1-2 MPG above what I calculate myself.


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That is interesting. And good info. Maybe we are getting (a little) better mileage than we think.

 

About 19MPG on my turbo.


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Not that I watch that closely, but about 24 on long, high speed, highway runs, and maybe 19 in town and in light traffic.

An S with 19" tires.

 

I only check on what the Multi-function display shows in my Macan. Cannot find a way to improve from 17mpg. My car still has less than 600 miles so I am driving like an old granny waiting for the 2,000 miles point.

 

The manual says the Macan S has a total capacity of 19.82 US gallons, with a reserve of 2.64 US gallons. So, is the reserve included in the 19.82 gallons or the total capacity is 22.46 gallons?

 

Reserve is included. When the low fuel light comes on you know you have 2.64 Gal's left.

 

Remember, those dinosaurs are already dead. Don't make their deaths be in vain

 

6k miles, 50/50 mix of city and highway in a given week, very consistent, no hills. Auto Start/Stop ON. 17.6mpg lifetime average. When looking just at highway run, I get 20-21. About same as my last-gen 535 xDrive (no stop/start, no Efficient Dynamics). Mildly disappointing for a brand new vehicle but not that surprising as a performance-oriented vehicle.

 

My 3 1/2 month old Macan S in normal mode is getting well over 22mpg combined. As much as 26 mpg on the highway. Pleasantly surprised!

 

Best I've gotten on Highway is 27 on the same direction where I can get 22-24 quite easily. City is solid at about 17-18 as long as I rely on Coating enough.

Typically on Highway in an opposite direction from the one listed above, I get just under 19 to about 21 or 22. Pretty terrible as I've never experienced worse highway than city as I sometimes have in this car. This is using the cars mpg meter.

To note, this is the hardest car to drive slow on the highway that I've driven. Reviewers often say the same thing. You give it a bit of gas and get a "wtf" surprise when you see the speed displayed. So that doesn't help mpg. The mixture of the drivetrain being so preformance geared and height and insane isolation just contribute to this.

Not happy with the mileage and fillups but this car already does about everything, I guess something's gotta give. I have to remind myself that to get these characteristics from a car of this shape and nature with a price like this, getting resentful of its mileage is kind of like letting your spoils make you unreasonably spoiled.

 

I barely get 19 mpg on my '12 RX mostly highway. I'm sure my S will get better fuel economy than that If I want it to

 

I started using Fuelly.com to track my MPGs when I had a Hybrid that seemed to be getting about half of the advertised city MPG. And yeah, the hybrid was about 60% of stated. Worst car I have ever owned.

For my Macan:

Macan Turbo (Porsche Macan) | Fuelly

So 2 months, 8 fill ups, and 1600 miles later, I am sitting at 14.2 MPG average. Traffic in Hawaii literally sucks away the fuel like an alcoholic at an open bar.

 

As I've said before, you poor, poor man living in paradise having to put up with such indignities. ;-) :laugh:

 

I have 8,700 miles on my S and I consistently get 21-22 MPG driving 20/80 city/highway. I'm running 18" Scorpion Winters for the last 3,500 miles. I tend to drive 75-85 on the interstate (75 MPH speed limit). I use Sport mode in the mountains, so I'm not pokin' along.

 

Was just on the car, 14.9 average since last refuel 150 miles ago.

 

While my boat (sorry, car) is still somewhere off the coast of San Diego, I have a few comments.

I don't think many of us are here to save money on fuel, but in today's world it is something that we all probably think about, and I've read everyone's comments with interest.

Even after all the fuel-saving tech is added up, moving a 4,500lb car around still takes a lot of energy and I don't expect any miracles. My Boss 302 averaged 16mpg on my daily commute, my Stingray averaged 17mpg, my ancient Lexus ES300 averaged about 19mpg, and if my SUV that weighs over a thousand pounds more can get anywhere near those figures, life will go on for me. After all, a difference of 1mpg up or down equates to only about $130 annually for the average 12k-per-year driver, which I think is less than any Porsche option on the list.

Over my ~17 years of driving (all six and eight cylinder cars, now that I think about it), I think that every gas-engined vehicle I have owned has averaged between 16 and 19mpg in the mixed real world. Other than hybrids and diesels, I don't think there too many ways to change that.

 

In my experience (since May 2014), averages between 11.3 litres and 12.6 litres per 100km, depending on street or highway driving. Most of the time it sits in between those two.

 

I have been averaging less than 14 on my Turbo, 3,500 miles (mostly city with everyday canyon driving). If I look at strictly city it's more like 12mpg. The same as my 8-cyl M3 actually.

The mileage in mine sucks but fortunately my business pays the gas not me.

Interestingly my 981 gets AWESOME mileage, esp on the highway where I can get in the upper 20's. Unfortunately for the gas meter I don't like driving my 981 on longer highway trips since getting the Macan. Too tight -- too loud. Funny, I thought it was an awesome highway car before I got in the Macan.

I am now thinking I need to trade the 981S for a roomier 991S. The madness never stops!>

 

Interestingly my 981 gets AWESOME mileage, esp on the highway where I can get in the upper 20's. Unfortunately for the gas meter I don't like driving my 981 on longer highway trips since getting the Macan. Too tight -- too loud. Funny, I thought it was an awesome highway car before I got in the Macan.

Same here, it's amazing the mileage the 981 gets. I just got mine out yesterday after almost five months in hibernation and driving the Macan the whole time. At first I forgot how low to the ground and noisy it was, then after a warm up and a few curves it was wow I forgot how much fun it is. Nothing like it on a nice spring day with top down on a mountain pass, but I'm not sure how much I'll use it now with the Macan.

 

Just wait for the diesel version, likely rated 24/32mpg. To all you diesel haters, the VAG V6 Turbo diesel is a hoot to drive and great as a daily driver. The Macan version coming here will be even better.

I do care about mileage and performance. Whatever trade offs there may be, it is minimal.

 

After 4 1/2 months and 99.59 hours driving time mine has gotten 19.8 mpg with the auto stop start off and with snow tires. Mostly mountain driving. 4442 miles averaging 43 mph.

 

After around 2100 miles the trip computer says 14.4 mpg.

 

I use the Road Trip app every time I fill-up and I'm averaging 15.2±1 MPG on my Macan Turbo with 50/50 city/hwy driving in "economy" mode (not sport or sport+). However the multi-function display consistently reports 19-20 MPG. That's ~25% difference. I wonder if the Porsche algorithm doesn't include fuel usage when the car is running but stopped.

Maybe a thorough polish/wax will give it a fuel economy boost.

 

Sure that helps.

I would believe the onboard computer more than any offhand calculations. It accounts for everything, stopped or running. MPG = total current miles driven/total fuel consumption. Simple as that.

And I have found my BMW, Lexus and Toyota onboard mpg to be very accurate, within + 0.2mpg.

 

FYI - my offhand calculations are exactly the same as your definition - it's simply the number of miles driven since the last fill-up over the number of gallons required to fill up the tank. There is definitely something the Porsche software is not accounting for.

 

Mine has been hovering around 17 mpg (heavy city driving) even with heavy use of comfort and auto stop/start. It drops towards 15 in a hurry when I decide to have fun with it.

This was really getting on my nerves (getting below the low range of the rating without really pushing the car that much) so I decided to start trying different gas. Most place near me have "up to" 15% ethanol. Rather than my normal BP (supposedly "top tier") I started going to a Shell station a little out of my way because their 93 octane has only 10% ethanol. Three tanks later I'm 2 mpg better. Engine feels a little smoother but for now I'm assuming that part is psychological.

 

The higher the ethanol, the lower the mileage. There are several ethanol-free premium choices near me. I use them exclusively.
I'm at 20.6mpg last 6K miles.

 

Which brands?



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I have noticed that the trip computer does not log the miles initially when the car has been sitting for a few hours. When the mileage starts to display, the mpg is way high and drops down gradually until a reasonable number is displayed. From startup in my garage down to the first stop sign I get close to 27 mpg, completely unbelievable. I idle my car in the garage for 30 seconds or so to boot.

 

That's real time mpg display. You need to look at the trip mpg, the longer trip the more accurate as all extreme mpgs are averaged.