Right,

I think I have decided on the future and it looks like this.

A white vRS FSi Estate with leather, Maxidot, Sunset glass and maybe Xenons.

It will be a replacement to a diesel vRS which I have had as a company car for nearly 4 years.

The company will give me a cash payment in lieu of a co. car and the mileage rate for a petrol is 3p per mile more than a diesel however, I need to know that I won't loose money on a trip and so want to know what you can get on a steady 100mile, 70mph motorway cruise.

I do a lot of miles but most of them are company so as long as I can break even, I don't need to go into the diesel vs. petrol debate. I've had 4 years of an economic argument and now I want something that revs past 4500 rpm

Steve

I'm sure 38mpg is acheivable when doing 70mph all day.

The problem is being stuck in traffic, overtaking, nipping to the shops, lending the car to the wife etc. etc will reduce your average mpg quite considerably.

Be careful as others start quoting their mpg as they often take the number directly from their onboard computer which often means it won't be a realistic reading. The only true mpg figure is from a brimmed tank and a manual calculation.

I'm sure 38mpg is acheivable when doing 70mph all day.

The problem is being stuck in traffic, overtaking, nipping to the shops, lending the car to the wife etc. etc will reduce your average mpg quite considerably.

Be careful as others start quoting their mpg as they often take the number directly from their onboard computer which often means it won't be a realistic reading. The only true mpg figure is from a brimmed tank and a manual calculation.

Sounds about right for a petrol vRS.....

I'd say nearer 34.

I'd say 38 is easily achievable and low 40's a real possibility

I do 70 miles each day on the M5 and if I take

It easy I regularly see 42mpg +

That's easily done on a motorway run.

I only have a 1.8Tsi and love it. The problem I find over my old oil burner is this...

With the petrol you can get decent MPG by driving nicely, as people say 40+ possible on a 70MPH run with no traffic. Problem is when you come off the motorway and get stuck behind some "slow" driver and as you have the power to overtake you need a lot of self control in order to not take your average 40mpg for the last hour down to 35mpg in one or two overtakes. Don't get me wrong I am really glad I moved from and oil burner to petrol but the MPG can be shocking sometimes :-)

Recently completed a 270 mile trip from Yorkshire to Devon. Due to traffic, my speed varied from 65 to 90. Tried to keep it as close to 80 as I could and had an average of just over 40 when I got home. Not too much worse than the PD vRS I had before.

Jesus.

I'm having second thoughts again....

Here is my predicament.

Do I get something like a 1.6CR Elegance as a co. car.

Pros - Cheap as chips tax and great fuel economy. Can save enough money to run a MX5 track/weekend car

Cons - slow as, just a 'normal' car to spend 25k miles a year in. Have to keep the car for 4 years and deal with LexAutolease, Kwack Fit and my fleet manager.

or get the money and get a vRS

Pros - Nice place to be. Feel good factor of spending time in a nice car. My car so I can so with it what I want

Cons - more expensive option. My own car which will be racking up a high mileage.

ARGHH

Steve

Get your own car whatever you do. Look at it this way, if you have a company car for the next 10 years how much will you pay in tax and what exactly will you have at the end of those 10 years?

That's how I looked at it when I came out of the company car scheme many years ago.

And like you I spend too many hours in a car to go for a sensible option.

Andy

Edited 14 December, 201015 yr by bandrew465

I'm having second thoughts again....

vRS all the way. If you go for the Elegance you'll always have that niggling regret in the back of your mind.

25,000 and four years is a long time to wish you hadn't!

I quite fancy a Superb Estate as well.....

Steve

Get your own car whatever you do. Look at it this way, if you have a company car for the next 10 years how much will you pay in tax and what exactly will you have at the end of those 10 years?

Any 'cash for car' vehicle I chose, has to be less than 5 years old so that theory I'm afraid doesn't apply.

Steve

I had a meeting a couple of weeks ago drove Manchester to Dewsbury, ( rush Hour) then Dewsbury to wakefield and on to Castleford and back to Manchester in the late afternoon, a round trip of some 140 miles or so at an average speed of 60mph due to prevailing traffic flow on the motorway and given it is up and over the pennines both ways....pulled up at home with an indicated 54.6mpg and thats on a VRS CR212

Any 'cash for car' vehicle I chose, has to be less than 5 years old so that theory I'm afraid doesn't apply.

Steve

Of course it applies as you will surely be getting approx 400 a month?

Another possibility - a 1.8 TSI. Probably too expensive tax-wise as a co. car but what you save against a vRS could buy a you a cheap old MX-5.

While i'm on, my next Octavia is going to be a vRS petrol TSI. The brochure says 95 RON petrol is OK: was it the old TFSI that needed super unleaded or does the TSI benefit from it too?

Of course it applies as you will surely be getting approx 400 a month?

'Fraid not. the company is incentivising us to take a car so the lease value we are allowed is FAR greater than the cash for car value. Once you take higher rate tax and NI off that, it's not a lot!

The Lease value is almost double the cash for car value after tax!

I think I'm talking myself back into a co. car!

Steve

Hang on a min, how much are they offering you a month cash, and how much do you currently pay in tax per month for your co car? Also are you a higher rate tax payer?

I will work the numbers for you if you like.

Andy

Edited 15 December, 201015 yr by bandrew465

Thanks for the offer.

I have a spreadsheet that I use to calculate all my options. With all the variables and constants, I would be £400 better off a year with my own car. That sounds like a lot but, in my opinion today, not enough to warrant the extra potential costs of owning your own car (accidents, breakdowns, poor resale value of a 100k+ car etc).

Of course I could get a 1.6 CR S Octavia and be quids in....

The thread has come full circle! It started off with me wanting a FSi vRS and has ended with me considering a sooty Superb!

Steve

Did Newcastle to Cardiff and back the other day and I just sat between 70-80 Mph all the way and Maxi dot showed 43.7 Mpg when I arrived back on my driveway

I know that this isnt real-world figures, but I got 480 miles from a full tank.