Well did york to winsor and back again managed to get 54.8mpg with a bit of mixed driving ( altho the 50mph road works on the m1 past derby prob helped the numbers out alot)

Well did york to winsor and back again managed to get 54.8mpg with a bit of mixed driving ( altho the 50mph road works on the m1 past derby prob helped the numbers out alot)

Dam, them wheels look so nice on the car Jason.

cheers thought it was something differnet, not seen another with old rs4's on before

As a new 2.5 V6 owner, I'm amazed by the achievable mpg and surprised at the claims that the engine is inefficient. That figure of 47.6 was achieved in cold weather with lights and heater going a lot of the time, and shows the average based on long trips and shorter ones from a pretty cold engine.

On the long trips, it's common to see 52 or 53 mpg by the end of the run

Keep the engine below 2k rpm, use the engine torque and keep off the turbo and it's excellent.

fwiw - as aformer owner of this engine in manual form, a combined 41 (calc) is what managed in a couple of years. prob 70% A-road, 25% town, 5% with 2 bikes on roof at 50mph.

At that time i was a bp ultimate convert as well, which imho helped low down torque from 1k rpm

Thanks guys, sorry aboutthe typos, dyxlescci fingers.

Perhaps Ferret could post his planners name and we can all write to rant about the speed bumps. Like Johannapalm I too have boot admirers. Only yesterday a young bone head in a Ford Fiesta decided he could not wait and overtook me at speed over the bumps and nearly collided with an on coming car. Last year a yound woman took off after hitting the bumps at speed and wrapped her self round a lamp post. All in the name of road safety.

Save safely out there.

John

over the last 20000 miles in a 2.0 tdi ive averaged 39 mpg. about 80% a to b town driving 20% a roads and motorway, mostly carrying passengers. im happy with that. thats actual mpg worked out manually btw.