Thinking of changing my car to the VRS 170 Diesel.Can anyone tell me the average miles they get to a tank of fuel as the brochure,sales person and What Car review differs by about 100 miles.

With a 9 mile mix of A and B roads that I use to get to work I can see 40-45mpg on the computer. Resulting in up to 500 miles per tank, but usually get to around 450.

Is it a PD engine or CR. Will be slight difference between if memory serves right.

Saw 500 once on mine, often struggled to get 400!

Saw 500 once on mine, often struggled to get 400!

+1. Mine's a CR, but mainly town driving. Fast (90ish) motorway driving will still yield 40/42mpg. Stick to 70 & you'd more than likely see 500 on a tank. :yes:

I get about 500 miles to a tank which is mostly motorway miles. I dont tend to hang around.

I though that was poor, but reading the posts above - obviously not!

500-650 miles to a tank mostly motorway

On my PD my 10 miles to work and back would get around 420 miles from a tank, on a long run then this would go up to around 520. ON my CR I get around 450 miles with to work travel and 550 on a long run.

~600 miles per fill up. Click the mpg link in my sig.

I'm getting about 47mpg on a CR DSG with only 2.5K miles on it so still tight. Mix of around town, M25 stop-start and a few Motorway 'blasts' when conditions allow. I have the A/C on most of the time too.

On one trip of 80 miles driving 'sensibly' I saw 65mpg for the trip.

Overall I'm happy with the economy/performance balance. I'd have settled for 140BHP but wanted the VRS.

My fuelly mpg below is off because first of 4 fill ups showed 40 mpg as I was playing with the DSG etc.

Edited 16 May, 201115 yr by CJSVRS

Generally about 550 miles between each fill up. Last couple of tanks have averaged a genuine 50-51mpg (mostly B roads and motorway).

Some longer motorway journeys have managed to average an indicated 53-55 mpg

Havng done just over 3000 miles mixed long / short, sprinkled with M'way / Town/A roads, I am slowly creeping up the mpg ( see fuelly below), On my last tank fill, MFD quoted 550 miles, previous was 500 miles, so am very happy with this car.

As long as it gets to 49 - 50 mpg post 1st service Skoda will have very happy driver. ( Specially given the severe dissapointment with my 500 diesel).

Like previous poster, I probably could have settled for the 140CR, but really wanted the vRS & the VAT free offer made it a no contest decision.

Long term average (according to my iPhone app) is 42mpg. My drive to work is 6 miles of twisty country lanes following 30mph school run mums. Sometimes have a run to London (200 miles return) and Cornwall (400 miles return) in there too. Can average 45mpg but not anymore really. PD engine.

Edited 16 May, 201115 yr by dan yeates

My PD vRS would manage 470 miles per tank of fuel, I've only owned the CR vRS for 1 week so am unsure of the economy but the trip computer consistently predicts a 40mpg average which is a bit worrying. My PD trip computer during identical journeys would be 44-48mpg. Hopefully the CR proves to be more fuel efficient and these figures are wrong.

I'm spending a fair bit of time on the motorway at the moment, cruising at about 75 I'm averaging about 50-52mpg on a run. Overall I'm getting about 48mpg average (suprisingly close to the 49.5 calculated by the trip computer), which should give me about 580 miles on a 55 litre tank (think it's 55 isn't it?) Don't think Ive' managed to get it below 40mpg on a single journey yet.

I get around 550 to 570 miles out of my CR Estate. Used to get around 500 to 520 out of my old PD Estate.

That's with a mix of probably 70% A/B roads and motorways and 30% town driving and I'm not often out at normal commuter times either.

300 miles out of mine on a full tank!

my manual with 600 miles on it I took from Holland to NI and got on computer with a fresh FULL tank 48mpg on computer wasnt going hard but engine still new when I worked out mpg myself from what fuel I needed to top it up having rest trip when i last filled I got 54.2mpg so I am happy mostly motorway for that car now showing 1300 miles and has developed a rattle from behind dash :(

Mine has about 30,000 on the clock and I look for 500 miles per tank but don't always get it. On my usual commute of 1 mile local roads either side of a 30 mile motorway journey I get about 48 mpg on average, and if this is all I do, I get the 500 miles out. If I do more round town driving it drops off a bit, but not too badly. It takes a bad journey (or a really good one!) to get it below 40mpg.

How quickly does the trip computer rise to 40+mpg when driving at 70mph for other CR drivers? In my PD while driving on clear motorways this would happen within 10 miles of my journey starting but the CR engine was only just hitting 41mpg after 30 miles of motorway driving last night. It does seem to take a long time to rise into the higher mpg numbers. Usually my old PD would be at 45-49mpg at the end of a 35 mile clear motorway run.

How quickly does the trip computer rise to 40+mpg when driving at 70mph for other CR drivers? In my PD while driving on clear motorways this would happen within 10 miles of my journey starting but the CR engine was only just hitting 41mpg after 30 miles of motorway driving last night. It does seem to take a long time to rise into the higher mpg numbers. Usually my old PD would be at 45-49mpg at the end of a 35 mile clear motorway run.

I do 23 miles each way to work and get between 49 and 57mpg.

I have averaged 48mpg (look at sig), I have just had a remap and I managed to get 63mpg on the display driving from London to Wellingborough which was mainly A roads and M1 doing 40/50/75 MPH. I have done about 480 miles so far and have 180 miles left on display.

I recon I could get +700 miles on a pure motorway run and I will find out when I drive to Bulgaria in July, but this means driving through Germany can I risk temptation

500 miles out of a tank is achievable and on one long trip to the Dordogne, saw 600

Was averaging about 42mpg (calculated) but with the increase in the price of fuel I've lopped 5mph off the motorway cruise and am now averaging 45mpg (calculated) including all the town driving and stop start rush hour crawling.

On a clear run at 75-80mph maxidot reckons somewhere in the region of 52mpg average which is probably about 50mpg in real life (going on the fact the average on maxidot says 46.8mpg and it's really 45...)

my old 70 litre Peug 406 110bhp HDi got on my personal MPG record attempt 1045 miles from a tank and that was like 30% motorway drove like an absolute tool to get it though and took some effort not worth it 52mph was its golden speed in 5th on the flat to keep mpg had to drop to 4th for hills etc with fuel prices today I miss her dearly im visiting parents at moment and my new VRS is parked next to my old 406 :'(

my old 70 litre Peug 406 110bhp HDi got on my personal MPG record attempt 1045 miles from a tank and that was like 30% motorway drove like an absolute tool to get it though and took some effort not worth it 52mph was its golden speed in 5th on the flat to keep mpg had to drop to 4th for hills etc with fuel prices today I miss her dearly im visiting parents at moment and my new VRS is parked next to my old 406

Had one of those pugs too in the past til the electrics started playing up all the time. Ecomony in it was even better after I remapped her (unless i took full advantage of the extra oomph...) Only got 970 miles or so out of a tank though, never was brave enough to keep going after that...