Fredrik Persson and his father Alf returned this week to Sweden after a round.the-world journey in a Fabia Greenline, having covered 12,000 miles on road with a fuel cost of £700. Their journey started in late April from Stockholm via Petersburg-Moscow-Vladivostok, to Japan (ferry) and the US West Coast (freight ship), another freight ship from NY to Belgium and then via Hamburg and copenhagen back to Stockholm.

Sponsored by Skoda Sweden of course.

Haven't found any English websites or good photos on this, regretfully.

I would have love to have done that!

Wonder if I can convince Skoda to let me do something similar with the new Superb or Superb Estate when it comes out....

If we work on diesel being on ave 108.9ppl (to allow for different countries cost) then it works out to 142Gallons being used with works out to frankly astonishing 85mpg!

If we work on diesel being on ave 108.9ppl (to allow for different countries cost) then it works out to 142Gallons being used with works out to frankly astonishing 85mpg!

does that count the miles at sea....

No idea i'm afraid. I expect it does but still sounds impressive:rofl:

I've checked the figures and the journey's length was 12,828 miles on road, i.e. miles at sea not counted (and freight tariffs not covered in the £700 )

The fuel consumption was 869 litres or 191.4 gallons which gives an mpg of 67 - not astonishing, but still impressive when one thinks of road conditions in (parts of) Russia.