Hello everyone. Hope you're all well.
Last week I purchased an 08 Mazda 6 2.0 TS. Absolutely lovely car and a massive improvement on my last heap. Very comfortable to drive, love the way it looks, it all feels very well built inside and out and the trim is all very good quality. Overall very happy so far with the choice.
I do unfortunately have one thing I'd like to ask about, and that's the low MPG I seem to be getting. Granted, I've only done one tank of fuel so far, but I have only managed to average 27-28 mpg.
I've been driving it a mixture of motorway miles and local miles, with a couple of mornings where the traffic has been heavy. I've tried my best to drive it "properly" to get a true MPG figure, changing up when required and not laboring the engine etc. basically been trying to drive it economically. When I bought the car, it has 60.1k on the clock and the trip computer was giving an average MPG of 38 MPG.
Am I just to assume that the previous owner did a lot more motorway miles than I have done over the last week, and is 27 MPG about right for roughly 70% "local" driving I have done?
In honesty, the higher running costs are a trade I'm ok with considering how much I like the car. But if I can save some quids I would like to. Is there anything I could be doing to return lower MPG in my driving style that I can change? Anything I can do easily with the car to increase MPG? (I have noticed that the tracking appears to be off as the steering wheel isn't straight and the car has a slight pull to the left, could this be a contributing factor?)
Thanks everyone.