Had car for three weeks now and economy is pretty close to brochure figures. FIlled up yesterday and after driving for about 30 miles I checked the range- see photo. This is with the 1.6CR, NOT the greenline- reckon the 60l tank should give a max theoretical range of about 634 miles at stated 64mpg overall.

Anyone do/done better?

I get about 500 mls on a tank with a mixture of m-way and urban driving.

Phil

I get about 500 mls on a tank with a mixture of m-way and urban driving.

Phil

Last week I filled up (140 DGS Estate) after a motorway trip and saw 780 on the meter!!

What you see is not always what you get. Maxidot has a mind of it's own.

Phil

It would not have read that much if you had reset the trip.

Had car for three weeks now and economy is pretty close to brochure figures. FIlled up yesterday and after driving for about 30 miles I checked the range- see photo. This is with the 1.6CR, NOT the greenline- reckon the 60l tank should give a max theoretical range of about 634 miles at stated 64mpg overall.

Anyone do/done better?

Hi, I think your maths is a little awry :p 60 litres = 13.20 gallons x 64 mpg average = 844.80 miles

For the record, my remapped 1.9Tdi 105 has achieved an average of 56.15 mpg, documented on Spiritmonitor.de for the last 25,000 miles. My best mpg from a tank was 61.50 mpg which enabled a range of 784 miles. Your 1.6Tdi, should be able to achieve an easy 60 mpg average which would mean a range of 792 miles.

Do you have experience of the 1.9Tdi, as if so, I'd be interested to hear your impressions of the 1.6Tdi compared against the 1.9Tdi?

We travelled 280 miles to Lowestoft and then the same back again on Friday, setting out at 4am to miss most of the traffic on the outbound journey. My 1.9 PD TDI Greenline Superb II read 76mpg by the time we arrived there. The counters had all been reset at the garage at the end of our street after I filled up as we set off, and while the engine was still cold. It was about 50/50 between motorway and A roads and back streets. Not a bad run at all! We were doing 70mph 'motorway speeds' most of the way there too, and only used £25 of fuel (20 litres or so).

This was taken around the time we entered Norfolk and swapped drivers. I hasten to add it wasn't the driver who took the shot! I should have taken a final shot with the 76mpg readout but to be honest after 5 hours in the car we just wanted out!!

To have such a big comfortable car and still return this kind of economy is just brilliant. I can only wonder what the dials would have said if we'd done 55mph all the way there. That said, 5 hours in the car at 70mph was bad enough. I don't think we'd have survived mentally if we'd have driven it at 55mph and added all that extra time on top.

EDIT: As for range, 60 litres x 76mpg would have given me a 1,003 mile range for that journey had I not run out of dry land, all things being equal. Things are never equal though, and on the way back with an extra passenger and luggage - not to mention a ton of traffic - we 'only' got a readout of 71mpg, thus lowering the range a bit.

Edited 29 May, 201115 yr by Derv

We travelled 280 miles to Lowestoft and then the same back again on Friday, setting out at 4am to miss most of the traffic on the outbound journey. My 1.9 PD TDI Greenline Superb II read 76mpg by the time we arrived there. The counters had all been reset at the garage at the end of our street after I filled up as we set off, and while the engine was still cold. It was about 50/50 between motorway and A roads and back streets. Not a bad run at all! We were doing 70mph 'motorway speeds' most of the way there too, and only used £25 of fuel (20 litres or so).

This was taken around the time we entered Norfolk and swapped drivers. I hasten to add it wasn't the driver who took the shot! I should have taken a final shot with the 76mpg readout but to be honest after 5 hours in the car we just wanted out!!

To have such a big comfortable car and still return this kind of economy is just brilliant. I can only wonder what the dials would have said if we'd done 55mph all the way there. That said, 5 hours in the car at 70mph was bad enough. I don't think we'd have survived mentally if we'd have driven it at 55mph and added all that extra time on top.

EDIT: As for range, 60 litres x 76mpg would have given me a 1,003 mile range for that journey had I not run out of dry land, all things being equal. Things are never equal though, and on the way back with an extra passenger and luggage - not to mention a ton of traffic - we 'only' got a readout of 71mpg, thus lowering the range a bit.

:envy: - well done!

I get around 500 miles to the tankful also, but when i refill to the brim and reset the trip maxidot gives a wildly optimistic range. check out your range when the needle drops down to below half and you get a different impression then!!

Glad you are enjoying your new car.

G.K.

My best 420 miles to the tank

BUT I'm happy with that my last car Audi RS4 only managed 240 miles

(But much quicker!)