Sounds representative of a 2002 with a driver using a medium to heavy foot... If you drive like a fairy, you'll get high 20's on a long run, but with a company expense account behind you, why bother :D

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Best keep those business miles up then otherwise the tax man will strike you down!!
I have the same deal, but they feel better about it as I get 30+ on a run (have had consistent 34) and 28 around town.. depends of course how its driven. You got the power where as I have to know my limits in a 2.8!

on the on board computer the most the average it has ever seen was 21mpg for a steady drive from oxford to Northampton to pick up some wheels

normally sits at 17 and i have a heavy right foot ;)

Its been some time since the number of business miles you do has any impact on what the tax man wants for the perk of having a company car and/or fuel.....

If you have a company car, and company fuel the whole tax bill is based on the CO2 emmisions only.

If you have an opt out (ir, you run your own personal car), and the company pays all your fuel, and probably an 'opt out allowance', then the fuel and allowance are treated as income and taxed at the normal income bands, but with the pleasure of being able to offset the first 10000 business miles at 40p per mile and the rest at 25p......

The last alternative is if your company has a special agreement with the Inland revenue for expenses, and you can pay a set amount each month irrespective of the amount of fuel used, but you dont claim business miles....

All the advice above is comment only, I'm not a financial adviser, check it yourself, bla bla bla +++

I think we are both coming from the 'use our own cars and company pay for the fuel' side of the fence, where the amount of business miles has a very real effect on the tax bill!!
There are generally two options
use your own car, and put in expense claims/company pays for business related mileage at whatever rate it wants (you can then claim the difference if any back from the IR up to the figures above.. 10k etc etc)

or my option..use your own car and company pay all fuel with fuel card, submit that amount the IR upon when I call them and say 'hey chaps, actually xxxx miles were business from that lot' and the reimburse me at the same rates as above.

So, keeping my business mileage up is a good thing in my case - and not hard since I am here and clients are in London. 500 miles every trip ! (down side is car has done 40k in 10 months :-(

Down side?! :Confused:

At an average of 50 mph, that's 800 hrs, or 33 days (solidly) in your 8....

...that's time well spent in my book! :D

-Oli

there are times it feels like that on the M6 !! haha

But.. can think of worse places to be.. like office!

rofl

In town 27mpg, best on motorway - 39mpg.

On average - 31mpg.

Not bad from a 4.2 V8 diesel!!

I have been pleasantly surprised by mine.

Average is 24.5, that's combined town and long stretch driving.

On a good run, if I'm sat at 80 (KPH ;p) the car will easily return 32MPG. At higher KPH speeds of around 92, it's even better.

That's great for a 4.2 petrol +++

Oh, and I don't have a lightweight foot ;)