Philip Foglar
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Warm up cycle is always going to "waste" fuel, and I would serious avoid any frequent short trips! Rather take a longer route so that the engine/gearbox reaches proper operating temperature, not to mention allow the battery to get a decent charge.
It will be interesting to see what the typical consumption figures are for the new M3/M4, I would think it should be fairly possible to achieve close to the claimed figure if driven appropriately. But if you are nailing the throttle you cannot expect anything other than heavy fuel consumption. Bare in mind that the whole reason why BMW has gone the turbo engine route was to satisfy the green party, so lower emissions and generally lower fuel consumption. With this, generally smaller engines that are turbo charged, so with moderate driving they are leaned out to use less fuel, but when the right foot demands more, it has extra lungs to burn fuel - more power...
It will be interesting to see what the typical consumption figures are for the new M3/M4, I would think it should be fairly possible to achieve close to the claimed figure if driven appropriately. But if you are nailing the throttle you cannot expect anything other than heavy fuel consumption. Bare in mind that the whole reason why BMW has gone the turbo engine route was to satisfy the green party, so lower emissions and generally lower fuel consumption. With this, generally smaller engines that are turbo charged, so with moderate driving they are leaned out to use less fuel, but when the right foot demands more, it has extra lungs to burn fuel - more power...