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Best cars for MPG

A lot of people have often asked "what is the most fuel efficient car I can buy?". Its a good question and it varies on a lot of things, but we here at fuel-economy.co.uk have had a rummage around in the database and have come up with some interesting results.

Remember that if you are interested in seeing details for any car in the database, have a look at the Whats my MPG? page where you can do as many lookups as you want.

Average Fuel Economy of all UK Cars

Just out of interest we thought we'd have a look at the average fuel efficiency of all UK cars available today (that we have in the database anyway).

Urban MPG	Extra Urban MPG	Combined MPG
28.225	47.327	37.837

We were mildly suprised about these figures; we were expecting a higher figure for the urban cycle, and a lower figure for the extra urban cycle, especially considering that the database contains details for all those fuel hungry vehicles like Ferarris!

Most Fuel Efficient Cars

This table shows the top 10 most fuel efficient cars that you can get in the UK today, based on their Combined fuel efficiency figure. Unsuprisingly, diesel superminis are dominating the top positions.

What we thought was fairly interesting was that the Toyota Prius - long hailed as the defacto "green" car - just scrapes into our list at 10th place! However, to be fair on the Prius's electric benefits when we look at only the urban cycle (not shown here) the Prius comes in in 4th place, behind the Insight, and C3 and C2 1.4 HDI SensoDrives. All this leads us to one question - when are the car manufacturers going to start making a hybrid diesel supermini?

Manufacturer	Model	Specification	Fuel Type	Transmission	Combined MPG	VED Band
HONDA	Insight	Insight	Petrol Hybrid	M5	83.10	A
CITROEN	C2	1.4 HDi	Diesel	M5	68.90	B
CITROEN	C1	1.4 HDi	Diesel	M5	68.90	B
RENAULT	Clio	1.5 dCi 80	Diesel	M5	67.30	B
CITROEN	C2	1.4 HDi SensoDrive	Diesel	A5	67.30	B
CITROEN	C3	1.4 HDi	Diesel	M5	67.30	B
RENAULT	Clio	1.5 dCi 100	Diesel	M5	65.80	B
RENAULT	Clio	1.5 dCi 65	Diesel	M5	65.80	B
CITROEN	C2	1.4 HDi	Diesel	M5	65.70	B
TOYOTA	Prius	1.5 VVT-i Hybrid	Petrol Hybrid	E-CVT	65.70	B

Most Fuel Efficient Petrol Cars

Ok so even though we've just seen that the Diesel supermini is where you need to be looking if you are after the best fuel economy possible, not everyone wants a diesel because frankly - despite all the leaps and bounds that have been made with diesels over these past few years - they aren't sexy! And not everyone can afford a petrol hybrid like the Honda Insight or Toyota Prius either.

As such, we've broken the results down to show the top 10 petrol cars. As you can see superminis dominate again, but even the most fuel efficient petrol car in the database has a combined MPG figure about a fifth lower than the 10th placed diesel.

Manufacturer	Model	Specification	Transmission	Combined MPG	VED Band
smart	roadster	80 bhp (205 tyres)	A6	55.80	C
TOYOTA	Aygo	1.0 VVT-i 3 & 5-door	Multi5	51.40	B
TOYOTA	Aygo	1.0 VVT-i 3 & 5-door	M5	51.40	B
CITROEN	C1	1.0i	M5	51.40	B
PEUGEOT	107	1.0 (65 bhp)	M5	51.30	B
PEUGEOT	107	1.0 (65 bhp)	A5	51.30	B
smart	fortwo coupe	61 bhp 175 rear tyres	SM6	47.10	B
smart	fortwo coupe	50 bhp 175 rear tyres	SM6	47.10	B
smart	fortwo cabrio	61 bhp 175 rear tyres	SM6	47.10	B
DAIHATSU	Charade	L251 1.0L EFi	M5	47.10	B

Fuel-Economy.co.uk has gone to great lengths to ensure the accuracy of the information presented, however please be aware it is provide only as a guide.