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UK fuel prices are soaring, but these easy expert tips can make your petrol car 25% more efficient

The trip computer is saying 60.4mpg and I’m astonished. “That’s not an unusual improvement,” says Evan Morris, from Red Driver Training, adding: “typically we see savings of around 11% or so but I’ve seen as much as 50%.”

That’s a full 10mpg more than the 50.4mpg official WLTP figure for the Dacia Sandero Stepway. Morris has just schooled me using Red's Fuelsave techniques, which are all about squeezing as much potential out of every precious drop of the ever more expensive fuel that we’re all painfully filling our tanks with.