Dor

What MPG are people getting? I'd especially lik to know from vRS owners.

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cheezemonkhai

On a Golf GT TDI PD170 I had, I was getting about 47 IIRC, on a motorway cruise and could just get it above 50 if i was being gentle on it.

Floor it and you can get it well into the 30's

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I'm getting 42mpg but I've only done 1500miles so far in my vRS TDi. I expect it might become slightly more efficient as the miles pile on. My use is a mixture of A roads with traffic lights on the way to work (18miles) and motorway on the way home (25miles).

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Dr Zoidberg

In my PD140 I get about 51-53 indicated on a full tankfull.
I've moved offices recently and am doing a shorter run which seems to have knocked about 3mpg off on my commute so I'll probably average 50 overall.

On a long motorway journey I'll get between 55 and 60

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PSM

On my VRS (5000 miles on clock) I get between 42-47mpg on the 10 mile trip each way to and from work (mixture of A roads and motorway with some lights etc.- tend to get worse on way home due to more traffic etc). I have not done a really long drive but get about 50mpg on the motorway from Swansea to Cardiff (50miles). I would expect to be into the 50s when I drive up to Birmingham in the near future.
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tonygriffiths

[quote=Dor;906187]What MPG are people getting? I'd especially lik to know from vRS owners.

As Lawrence Pomeroy once said – “All cars do 25 m.pg”. – and I bet if you drove your Vrs “balls out”, that’s what you’d get. Otherwise it’s 48 to 53 mpg come hell or high water; well, at sane speeds, anyway.
Land Rover once ran a Mk. 1 Discovery over a long test and stuck to 30 mpg - giving just short of 90 m.p.g. Not bad for a 2-ton monster. I wonder what an Octy would do in similar circumstances? Anyone for a 30 mph trip down the M1 ?

yashicamat

My PD140 will average about 50mpg on a brisk motorway run, about 40mpg around town (my town is hilly though so that does contribute). My 600 mile average since I last reset is 43mpg. I am blaming my right foot and the proximity of the Cat & Fiddle road.

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cheezemonkhai

I thought 50-67mpg was not that great on the PD140

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bahnstormer vrs

I've a vRS TDI, now with 2500 miles on the clock.

On my daily commute; 25 miles each way in/out of London I'm on about 40-41mpg.

In the last week I've twice done a 425 mile round trip of M'way, fast and slow A roads in a 'brisk' manner (certainly using full throttle when suitable to overtake - wow that tsunami of torque from the TDI) and got 44.2 (1st trip) and 44.8 (2nd trip).

Not my style to be light footed enough to get into the 50s mpg and I reckon on an A/B road 'blast' it would be down to c. 35 mpg. Latest edition of EVO has a quick drive in the vRS TDI and the reckoned to have got 40+ mpg - good result considering they would be enjoying the car.

Kenny Freckles

On my Vrs Tdi which now has 13.5k miles on it i'm getting an average of about 45mpg.
On a steady run down the M1/a50 at 65/70mph for 50 odd miles, which is my normal daily grind, it'll return between 50 and 53mpg for that stretch, but you have to be gentle with the loud peddle to return those figures. Keep up a normal motorway pace up and it'll return 45-48mpg.

terrycb

I'm averaging 46mpg over 5k miles on my VRS TDI, thats on a 50/50 combination of A roads and motorways, mostly steady driving with the occasional blast.

mannyo

With my PD140, I average 54MPG on my commute and can see higher figures on long runs.

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yashicamat

I wonder if tyres make a difference? Just noting that it's only the PD140 guys that are getting high mpg figures, and I'm assuming you're on standard 205/16 wheels, whenas I run the same 225/17's as the vRS does. Maybe that contributes? I know that when I had my fabia, I could get much better mpg figures with the stock 185/14's than I could with the 205/16's I had on for a good part of it's life.
Just a thought. My commute incidentally is a 3 mile across a very busy town, stop start, 6 sets of traffic lights, a roundabout which there is always queing on etc., so that tends to drag my mpg down. Also, my job sees me doing a lot of short journeys and stop/starting, so that also is detrimental I suspect.
At the end of the day though, the official published mpg for mine is 47.9 or something, and I get usually about 44mpg. So that's a drop of about 4 mpg. The fabia's claimed average was 56.5mpg and I averaged 50mpg, so if anything the Octy is closer to it's claimed figures than the fabia was.

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storm monkey

I'm usually seeing about 42 mpg, on a mixed route, in my PD140. I typically see figures between 33 and 60 when at a constsnt 75mph, but the roads here ain't that flat. For some reason I couldn't get better thsn about 38mpg for a few days last week, just after I refueled, but Its better now. I'm hoping I'll see higher values in the not too distant future, as I've only covered 700 miles so far, and I'm not really pushing it. I have heard that mpg will improve. I just hope it does!

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yashicamat

My mpg has definately improved, the first few tankfuls I was averaging high 30's mpg, and I didn't put my foot down once as it was new and I was running it in. It will get better, and if you nanny it around you can get pretty reasonable figures, but nannying it around defeats the objective of getting the more powerful engine in the first place.

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Dook

I have a Passat 170TDi with the DSG gearbox, on 235/17's and on my daily commute I get anywhere between 39 and 45mpg dependent on traffic. I have only done 1500 miles in it so far so it is yet to loosen up properly. Mind you, I did a B road sprint the other day on the Sport setting on the box, and over 18 miles I got an average 27mpg! ::

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Scuff

Errrrr - we managed to get it down to 23mpg on one of our unmarked test vehciles.

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cheezemonkhai

Relatives has the 17" and sports set up on a PD140 and easily gets 60+ on his commutes.

I think your right foot is quite heavy

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gadgetman

My 2.0 FSI seems to be delivering the same MPG rates as my 1.8T Mk 1 elegance did.

Bout 36mpg on dual carriage ways and extra urban, and between 42 and 44mpg on the motorway. That's with sharp acceleration and quite a heavy right foot.