LR3 is actually the worst of all my rovers, LR3, L322 supercharged, P38, 2020 defender, 1991 D90, 1990 110 300tdi. My LR3 gets 12 around town, only 16 or so on the highway.

 

I am kind of jealous of you guys....my mixed is around 11.5 to 12. If I hit 200miles before the light comes on I am excited. Pulling my travel trailer is 7-8 lol

 

08 with 95k here and I am just came back from a 400 mile trip that was exclusively highway miles and I got 18 mpg. If I'm doing a mix of city and highway its in the 13-ish range. This is calculating the old fashioned way, but the onboard computer actually turned out to be pretty accurate.

 

07 67k with 285/60/18 tires and a slight lift using the GAP IIDtool. I get abou 12-13 city, 19-20 flat highway and about 14mpg on average. Gas mileage is crap but who cares. If you need a 3 row SUV that you can take about anywhere with a 120lbs dog, wife, kid, and all the camping stuff/gear there are not to many options out there.

Before I bought the LR3 I was looking at the lexus lx 470, and early 2000s G-wagons and they all get about the same horrible gas mileage. LXs are expensive even with 200k on the odo when I was looking they were 18-30k, early g wagons were 28-40k 80k+ odo. I picked up my 1 owner 07 v8 SE with 27k and all maint records for 15k 4 years ago currently have 67k on it. The people I bought it from with a new LX.

Off road SUVs like this eat gas, its just a fact of life. The new discovery 5 with a diesel gets pretty good MPGs @ 21/26/23. Although I wish it looked more like the new defender and they keep the old defender in production.