Well, I can see your concerns retro gal.

I averaged 43.7mpg (according to the car though) on the same run our low milage (10k) 7 year old Fabia 1.4 petrol auto (only 4 speed) used to always average 50mpg.

That was never going over 62mph and driving as economically as possible for the entire journey.

I can only hope it improves as the engine loosens up.

Have to say, I'm still impressed with the smoothness, low noise levels and how few revs the engine uses though. A nice car to drive.

Well, I can see your concerns retro gal.

I averaged 43.7mpg (according to the car though) on the same run our low milage (10k) 7 year old Fabia 1.4 petrol auto (only 4 speed) used to always average 50mpg.

That was never going over 62mph and driving as economically as possible for the entire journey.

I can only hope it improves as the engine loosens up.

Have to say, I'm still impressed with the smoothness, low noise levels and how few revs the engine uses though. A nice car to drive.

With just over 1,000 miles on the clock I'm averaging 37 mpg. Most of the driving is rural and dual carriageway long distance driving with virtually no rush hour urban miles. The best I've done (on the trip computer) is 43mpg on an easy 180 mile journey. On shorter journeys (say 3 - 5 miles) I generally get around 33 mpg. I have a fairly light right foot and don't think anyone would get much better mpg out of my Yeti. That said I'm very pleased with the car and it's performance and have no complaints about the fuel consumption - if it improves as the engine loosens that'll be a bonus.

It would be interesting to know what tyres people are on as well, perhaps the fuel consumption is linked to them. I have got the Goodyears on mine and am averaging 33 mpg.

Mark

After 1500 miles I am getting a more or less constant 40mpg - that's a combination of urban and short motorway journeys - I am happy with that.

I think that average MPG is heavily influenced by many things other than variability in the engines -

1) The proportion of your mileage that is composed of short (maybe 1 to 2 miles or less?) where the engine has not warmed up

2) What speed most of your mileage is at (40 to 60 mph will probably give the best return) - the relatively poor aerodynamics of the Yeti mean 70+ mph will knock MPG significantly

3) Driving style - watch how quickly fast acceleration will reduce your average MPG indication on MFD, and using the brakes a lot implies wasted fuel

4) The driving terrain - climbing hills kills MPG, especially at speed. If you then need to brake on the downhill you will recover less of the potential energy gained when climbing the hill, and hence reduce MPG

5) Whether you can maintain relatively constant speed on journeys, or whether there is a lot of acceleration and deceleration

6) As suggested, things on the roof will make a difference, the less aerodynamic and the higher the speeds, the worse it will be

7) The load you are carrying (though this does not seem to make a great deal of difference so far in my experience)

8) Use of aircon, although my experience and that of many here is that it seems to make only a little difference on the Yeti

9) I am curious to know whether differences in wheel/tyre size and make between models makes any significant difference, but that would be hard to assess

10) Accuracy of MFD or brim to brim measurements will make a difference

I have had my 1.2TSi DSG for 10 weeks or so now and have covered over 3000 miles with a variety of motoring, and my MPG for each tankful have been...

34.8, 37.6, 40.0, 38.9, 40.0, 39.1, 34.5, 38.4, 34.6.

These are all brim to brim measurements and I have checked my odometer against a Garmin GPS and can confirm that it is very accurate. As an aside, over 3000 miles, my MFD2 registers average MPG at 38.5 whilst my calculations indicate 37.8, suggesting that MFD is 0.7 mpg over-optimistic (actually it depends when you make the measurement - on the previous tankful the difference between MFD2 and brim to brim calculation was only 0.3mpg).

I would love to be able to get the MPG reported by Lee67 (and some others) but I don't think the factors outlined above will let me. By way of illustration, I have done individual journeys of 15 miles or more under good conditions (even 3 up and full of camping gear) where MFD has indicated an average MPG for the trip of 48 to 50 mpg (with little in the way of hills and starting and finishing at about the same altitude, - so not benefiting from overall downhill trip!). A camping trip to the North West of Scotland with two (small) adults, one eleven year old and the car jam full of gear (but no roof box) gave an average mpg (brim-to-brim) of 39.4mpg over 922 miles - that despite the hills. However, more normal motoring with more short trips up to the shop etc yielded a tankful at only 34.6 mpg. I suspect that the winter will make this worse!

I would like better MPG, but this is still better than the car it replaced (a much lighter and more aerodynamic Fiat Brava 1.6 petrol, with torque converter auto gearbox), partly due to a more fuel conscious driving style and the DSG box.

It would be really interesting to take two cars with apparently very different fuel economy, verify the accuracy of the MFD's, then do a decent trip in convoy, trying to employ the same driving style, and then see what the difference is. I suspect there may be differences between cars, but not as much as it may at first seem (except for cars with faulty cam sensors!).

Thanks for all your replies. It's reassuring to know that I'm not the only one getting mpg in the low to mid 30s...I have a manual yeti. Should that be MORE economical on fuel than the DSG?