I can get 50mpg if i drive gently.

Also comes top in another league:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/green-motoring/8027759/Is-your-car-as-clean-and-green-as-you-think.html

I can get 50mpg if i drive gently.

Also comes top in another league:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/green-motoring/8027759/Is-your-car-as-clean-and-green-as-you-think.html

So can I. :yes:

I can do it free wheeling down a hill but when it goes back to real world driving over any sort of distance I have never bettered 46mpg, no matter the type of journey.

Also comes top in another league:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/green-motoring/8027759/Is-your-car-as-clean-and-green-as-you-think.html

Cayman S 4th?

Also comes top in another league:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/green-motoring/8027759/Is-your-car-as-clean-and-green-as-you-think.html

Skoda Yeti 1.2 105PS 49mg/km (Hydrocarbons + NOx)

Skoda Yeti 1.8 160PS 4x4 43mg/km (Hydrocarbons + NOx) :S ?

From VCA website My link

Edited 4 January, 201115 yr by Pouclee

The VCA site looks like it gives the 1.2 at 20 mg/km, if I'm reading it right.

I can do it free wheeling down a hill but when it goes back to real world driving over any sort of distance I have never bettered 46mpg, no matter the type of journey.

edmund,

curious thing, but did you know you actually use more fuel freewheeling, than you do going down the same hill in the highest gear possible?

when coasting, the engine needs fuel to keep it running.

when when driving downhill, using no throttle, the engine is turned by gravity and momentum of the vehicle so uses almost no fuel at all.

edmund,

curious thing, but did you know you actually use more fuel freewheeling, than you do going down the same hill in the highest gear possible?

when coasting, the engine needs fuel to keep it running.

when when driving downhill, using no throttle, the engine is turned by gravity and momentum of the vehicle so uses almost no fuel at all.

In fact it uses absolutely no fuel at all on the over-run as the fuel injection supply switches off completely when the engine is braking the car.

As you say freewheeling makes no sense at all on modern engines.

In fact it uses absolutely no fuel at all on the over-run as the fuel injection supply switches off completely when the engine is braking the car.

As you say freewheeling makes no sense at all on modern engines.

What about transmission losses? I dispute the blanket "overrun better than coasting" argument. Providing I am on sufficient incline to maintain speed or slow at a slower rate than easing off the gas in gear then I find coasting much more efficient in my car.

Not that you should coast on the open road... *whistles*

Edited 6 January, 201115 yr by 'daiking'

Whatever. Our next new car with be a 1.2TSI with stop/start rather than a diesel. That is all.

And if Skoda don't put stop/start in the Octy estate, and VW insist on putting only the 1.4 in the SE estate, then that next car will be an Altea XL!

edmund,

curious thing, but did you know you actually use more fuel freewheeling, than you do going down the same hill in the highest gear possible?

when coasting, the engine needs fuel to keep it running.

when when driving downhill, using no throttle, the engine is turned by gravity and momentum of the vehicle so uses almost no fuel at all.

I probably wrote that incorrectly as free wheeling would mean it is in neutral I suppose. I actually meant going down a hill whilst in gear and not pressing the accelerator which I think is what you prescribe.

I actually did not know about this until I read it in a previous thread and checked it one time on the Maxidot. It read something silly like 120mpg whilst going down a hill and not accelerating.

Thank you to everyone who pointed out my error as it is a useful thing to know for those who were not aware of it.