E55 KEV

For my driving style I only managed to get 14/15 MPG. I would probably have 9/10 MPG on the new E55. What are you new E55 drivers getting? I know you new E55 drivers have not been paying attention to gas mileage because you are too busy grinning as you pass everyone.

03E55AMG

I drove 150 miles this past weekend at average of 85-90mph ( pedal was gently ) I got 20.5mpg in the highway...I was pretty happy considering how fast I was going...

City I get around 13-15mpg

motormouth

We don't want to offend any of our card carrying ACLU, commie econazi's with low mileage figures do we. They will only be happy when we all carpool around in little 1,200 pound **** boxes.

Anything would be a step up from my H2. Try about 9 city.

Take that Al Gore.

Rennteam

I'm actually shocked how much fuel my E55 consumes.
But on the other hand, I don't care too much. If I'd care, I'd end up driving a VW Polo Diesel. The only thing which hurts: fuel prices over here in Germany. I pay 1,23 EUR for 1 litre of Shell VPower (100 octane-translates into 97 octane US), which is around 1,45 USD for 1 litre. One Gallon would be around 5,50 USD!
Oh boy, you must be very happy people in the US.

Pbglas

Rennteam, what are you getting? In mpg or Km/100 liters.

Rennteam

400 km on 100 litres (this would translate into 9.5 mpg if I didn't make any mistake). Ouch.

Pbglas

That is not much fun. Not just the cost but with a 20 gallon tank it means stopping all the time.

Rennteam

I have to mention that I drive my E55 pretty fast all the time, not to say a little bit brutal.
But even when I drove slowly (city), I never got below 20 litres/100 km which would translate into aprox. 12 mpg.
Maybe the car is too new and the fuel consumption will be lower as soon as it is properly broken in but it was a pretty unpleasant surprise for me. Only the Cayenne Turbo tops this fuel consumption, I hardly got better than 8 mpg during my one day testdrive. Ouch again.

Pbglas

Thanks again, Rennteam. But Cayenne has a bigger tank I think.

I enjoyed driving a friend's Cayenne Turbo. How does it compare wiit hte E 55?

Rennteam

Well, I don't care too much about a bigger tank but more about fuel cost. We have at every corner a fuel station, the tank isn't really an issue.

The Cayenne Turbo is a very fine SUV, powerful and fast.
Compared to my ML55 AMG (our family transporter ), it is much more refined and feels more like a high power limousine than like a SUV (like the ML55 does). But let there be no doubt: the Cayenne Turbo doesn't come even close to the E55 performance, not to speak about handling. From 0-125 mph there is around 6 seconds performance difference (which means worlds) and the Cayenne Turbo still performs like a good but heavy limousine.
Don't expect the Cayenne Turbo to be a sports car, it doesn't even come close to this definition. But it is the fastest SUV I ever drove and I really liked the Cayenne. The Cayenne S isn't as fast as my ML55 (we already tested it), it falls back at almost any speed range. But the Turbo is the hell of a SUV, Porsche did a great job. Unfortunately they weren't able to lower the weight of the Cayenne Turbo, it is way too heavy (almost 250 kg more than my ML55 ).
I'm waiting for the next generation of the ML55, hopefully DC/AMG decide to put the supercharged V8 engine to the ML55.
500 HP would be nice on a SUV (and no, I don't want to hear anything about fuel consumption ).

Pbglas

Thanks again, Rennteam.

Turbo2

E55Kev-
You didn't read Warren Brown's write up last Saturday in the Washington Post about his time with the new E55? He said that he averaged aout 24 MPG on the highway (If I am remembering right) which seems quite high...especially from everyone's responses here.

Pbglas

Brown did say he did mainly highway driving presumably at fast but more or less constant speed. some of hte numbers posted here are for enthusiastic driving or city driving.

stephens

I have averaged 18.8L per 100km's since getting the car (according to the computer) which is 12.4mpg. This is signifcantly worse than the old E55 which used to average around 18mpg.

Rennteam

I'll do a 400 km trip to Italy this weekend and around 150 km will be a speed limited highway (poor italians ). I'm curious to see how much fuel my car eats at a constant speed of around 140 kph.

Pbglas

It is distressing that gas consumption is so much more thna that for the earleir E 55. Does the car have a display showing instantaneous gasoline use level? By eyeballing it, do you get a sense of when the consumption gets bad.

RedBaron

Sounds like a fair trade to me... if my swags are correct, we get a 34% increase in hp (350 to 469) for a 33% decrease in mileage (18 to 12).

Also, a gauge is probably redundant. If any of the following occur you are getting bad mileage:
- blurred vision
- your *** won't move out of the seat
- your wife is yelling at you
- heavy right foot
- speedo is in lower right quadrant

dNA3D

12MPG!! That's just about as bad as a 5400lb Range Rover!! But hell, it could've been worse. Could you even imagine the fuel consumption on a CL65/SL65/S65??? I wouldn't think so. Sure, getting into the single digit numbers is every amateur golfer's dream, but certainly a driver's nightmare. A stark contrast wouldn't you say?

Rennteam

Fuel consumption got much better during our 400 km trip to Italy.
From my home to the austrian border, I drove at full speed almost all the time (not speed limit on german Autobahn) and I got around 26 litres/100 km fuel consumption.
As soon as I slowed down and drove around 60 km on a country road at speeds from 70-110 kph, fuel consumption dropped to 12-14 litres/100 km (what a difference!). Then, I drove at constant speeds between 120 and 150 kph in Austria and Italy and got a fuel consumption of around 16-17 litres/100 km.
You do the math and conversion, I'm still in Italy right now and don't have my calculator with me.
BTW: the engine/exhaust sound is great when driving through the mountains and especially tunnels. Also driving on little streets between the houses provides people outside (and inside the car of course) with the best V8 growl I ever heard on a german car. Maybe the BMW Z8 was the same and of course...the SL55.

E55 KEV

Thanks Turbo2, but I missed that Washington Post review. But found it on Washingtonpost.com.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003May23.html

KenE55

Is the twin turbo engine found in the S600 more fuel efficient than the supercharged 5.5? I'm wondering if the supercharger itself is inherently inefficient in terms of producing power only at the expense of much more fuel consumption.

This is a big issue for me, not because I'm worried about fuel costs but I drive about 60 miles a day, all city, and it sounds like I would need to stop for gas about every 3 days with the W211. To me, that;s giving up a lot of "luxury", which is what I love about my W210 E55... luxury and great, if no longer the highest performance.

I get an average of around 17 MPG now, as I said, virtually 100% city driving.

I think comparing highway numbers between the old and new E55 is not so useful to me at least, beause at a steady speed the engines are not producing anywhere near as much power as they do during brisk acceleration up hills and such.