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I've owned a 200Ltr D SE on a 54 plate for seven years. It has now done 202,250 miles and will still return 61.5 mpg at 55mph (sat nav speed) at night on the motorway. If I follow a truck, I can get nearly 70 mpg. The car will also return mid 40 mpg if I travel at the 'legal' limits and involve town driving. I've just bought a 2.2 D Sovereign at 40,000 miles just in case the 2 Ltr dies on me. (I need total reliability) The Sovereign does about 5 mpg less over long distances and is a little annoying because just where you will do the best mpg, it wants to change between 5th and 6th gear. I forgive it because it is such a brilliant car. It is now in dry storage waiting for the 2 Ltr to die. I'm hoping it won't at least for another 50,000 miles. I can't sing the praises of the 2 Ltr D Jag loud enough, even if a Green Flag man filled me with doubt when a jubilee clip broke on a turbo pipe and left me stranded a long way from home. (He didn't have a good word to say about Jags). The fuel consumption is miserly. I drive the way I do because I get paid a 'mileage rate'. Non Jaguar people just don't get it. They think all Jaguars are gas guzzlers. Their ignorance gives us more to choose from.