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I have it. It is a very good engine and I usually average 7L/100km, not excellent but not bad since I do high town driving. I dont have lead in my feet too... I am really satisfied with it, it is not a racing car but I drove it 5000km filled up to the top (really) and I never felt like needing more bhp. Mine is from 2009 though.

I have my 1.6MPI (not FSI) and as other guy said, my best car so far. Recently drove my A4 from 2000 and in the Skoda you feel more quality (it is new and the A4 is old but....). Making between 40-46mpg in mixed driving (with light foot). 40k km so far.

I have a hatch, but my vote goes for the Scout....

+1 ;-)

Yepp, one gets used to this behaviour and can forget that physics laws cannot be avoided..... better be careful.

At least in Spain you have to use all 4 of the same type by law (u can use different brands though). I guess it is one european law applicable to all EU countries

Im afraid there is nothing like this. Buy a decent set of winter tyres. you will safe money (no crashes) and a lot of scary drifts.

In different magacines this engine has gone through a dynamometer test and as almost all VAG group turbo engines it delivers more bhp than advertised. Have no clue why this is like this, but I guess it is related to homologation stuff, CO2 and who knows, even marketing strategy.

Hi I have the old 1.6 with almost the same theoric bhp and I just arrived after doing a 3500km trip fully loaded up to the max. The car behaved expectacularly well, even during my trip cross Germany it reached 188km/h (gps reading, around 196km/h from the dash) and I could have gone further without problems. This is beyond the theoric max speed I think. It is not a car to do rallies but it will not dissapoint u if you are looking for a car just to go from A to B. BTW, the 1.2T has 125 real bhp. Hope this helps.

I remember one Golf III GT-TDI 110cv that I had some time ago stated very clearly in the manual that it could run with bio-diesel, but later in my Audi A4 B5 (TDI-115cv) it does not say anything about it.... strange.

Well, almost all current diesel cars can use bio-diesel without any problem at all. The only reason not to use bio-diesel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel) is because it destroys natural rubber so some inner joins built of this component may be affected. However most cars starting from 1992 have changed natural rubber with KTM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKM) so it is completely safe to feed them with this bio-diesel. May be there are other reasons (political and or economical) but afaik this was the only drawback of bio-diesel. If anyone has any other info about this it would be great to hear about it.

I recon each one has its own tastes but for me SEAT cars are UGGLLLLYYYY. Also the interiors are usually much cheaper looking. This does not mean they are bad, not at all, actually they are at the same level as the rest of the group, but their looks kill all their good bits. Today the only one which is worth looking at is the EXEO. The rest is :sick:. If you can live with its looks Im pretty sure you will find a very good car under it.

From other threads, the usual bits to check when u get low mpg is: - Tyres pressure - Filters (all of them) - Belts

Before giving up may be you can check in any scrap yard, I guess it is a not very usual part to change so there should be a couple of them available.

Loctite?