scoobynutta555

Thought I'd take it easy on the way home from the in-laws today. 150 mile trip 90% motorway with 20 miles of this stop/start. I managed a very respectable 66 mpg as an average, well over the quoted figs. That's about 40 mpg more than I'd get from the Impreza It did take 30 mins longer than usual though. Golf mk4 tdi.

Wonder if the new Subaru diesel could match this

Nimbus

If I drive really carefully, I can get 64 out of my 320d to work and back

Angels City Monger

My God thats fantastic real world figures.

The Chief

What sort of speeds is this at on a m-way

suprabeast

I get 16 sometimes

KiwiGTI

You'd have to be sitting at about 50-60 to do that. The best I ever got in th ereal world was around 50-55.

OllyK

I tend to average low 20's in the scoob.

pauly

iTrader: (1)

and it seems like I get about 6.6 in the scoob

scoobynutta555

65-70. Never really went over 70. On big descents I'd knock it into neutral, back into 5th before I'd get to 60 mph. Kept it just over 2k revs as much as I could. Really missed the 6th gear that I used to have on the gt tdi's.

HowieG

London to Manchester and back yesterday. Nearly two tankfuls - £100! I was making 'good progress' where possible. Perhaps I should get diesel?

How

Steve vRS

You'd have got more leaving it in a high gear coasting downhills as the car burns fuel in neutral but not when coasting. Unless of course you'd need to accelerate to maintain speed or counter the engine braking.

I'm getting an Octavia TDi vRS soon so I'm looking forward to getting stellar mpgs!

Steve

scoobynutta555

I'd say more coasting as there is no braking affect, could coast for ages.

Lee-B STi Type UK

I done Luton to Solihull and back yesterday in the missus Golf GT TDi 1.9, its been remapped (revo'd iirc) and most of the way at around 70mph in 6th gear apart from the 40mph average speed checks where the workman were working.
Trip computer showed average of 68.9mpg when i got home.

Well chuffed!

I think the STi would have bankrupt me!

Lee

corradoboy

Steve Sherwen is right, modern engine management systems detect over-run and stop fuelling completely. Remember when Clarkson took that Audi A8 from London to Scotland and back on a tankfull, this is exactly what he did under advisement from the VAG technical bods.

Lee-B STi Type UK

I was using a very light foot on the go pedal, mainly because I was tired.

But still very good fuel economy, them VW PD engines are superb.


Lee

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Buy a subaru and get a nice feeling that every time you put your foot down you are helping to kill penguins in the north pole

Lee-B STi Type UK

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ what o-zone?


Lee

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Get rid of them bloody penguins and polar bears i say. If they had the chance they would eat our children, dodgy snow loving freaks .

corradoboy

I've got two

SPEN555

Can't be that good they have stopped doing them.

corradoboy

I believe the next generation high pressure common rail are due out. Expect much more performance

CupraT

Any idea when these are due? Any links?

Cheers

scoobynutta555

Surely coasting for a long distance is better than leaving it in gear and having to suffer from speed loss through engine braking? The trip went up significantly due to coasting but not much at all due to leaving in gear and de-accelerating.

Bubba po

Why don't Polar Bears eat penguins?

Steve vRS

Because polar bears live in the Arctic and penguins prefer the Southern hemisphere.

also, they can't get the wrappers off

Steve

Nimbus

For myself, I set the Cruse Control to 60 and let it do 1600rpm in 6th gear.

Nimbus

Penguins live at the SOUTH pole actually....