I am extremely disappointed with my GII's mpg. I do a combination of country roads with motorway driving and currently at 12K miles on the clock. The best I managed to get is 74mpg (tank to tank, not computer display), late 60s, early 70s is the average I get. The dealer has checked the car out and nothing wrong with it. My old 02 plate Astra 1.7DTI did 65mpg on average (book stated 72mpg for urban). It is unlikely my next car will be from VW stable...

I am extremely disappointed with my GII's mpg. I do a combination of country roads with motorway driving and currently at 12K miles on the clock. The best I managed to get is 74mpg (tank to tank, not computer display), late 60s, early 70s is the average I get. The dealer has checked the car out and nothing wrong with it. My old 02 plate Astra 1.7DTI did 65mpg on average (book stated 72mpg for urban). It is unlikely my next car will be from VW stable...

I'm surprised you're disappointed with fuel economy in the 70s!

Most people are aware that it is unusual to be getting anywhere near the manufacturer quoted figures on a regular basis and its not an issue that's unique to VAG.

Can I ask what car you will be looking at next in order to beat the mpg you are getting from the greenline?

I am extremely disappointed with my GII's mpg. I do a combination of country roads with motorway driving and currently at 12K miles on the clock. The best I managed to get is 74mpg (tank to tank, not computer display), late 60s, early 70s is the average I get. The dealer has checked the car out and nothing wrong with it. My old 02 plate Astra 1.7DTI did 65mpg on average (book stated 72mpg for urban). It is unlikely my next car will be from VW stable...

After a new engine, multiple new injectors on new engine and other stuff my old GL2 managed a best of 65.5 mpg and averaged 55.7 driving at no more than 60 or it broke.

My 1.6 best is 55.8 and average 49.6

They say about 75% of book for real world driving or 62.4 for a GL2.

my GLII has just over 6k on it in 4 months

average has been slowly creeping up to around 65-68mpg a tank

on longer runs i get mid - high 70's best i have seen is 88mpg on a 25 mile run home from work

but a demo of how roads affect mpg with these cars

i have a 25 mile run to and from work,

going to work i see an average 62-65mpg, the run home i see 78-88mpg exact same roads just different direction

what causes the difference is a hill in the middle, going to work is a long slow hill about 4 miles long, followed by a steep downhill of about 1/2-3/4 mile losing all the hight gained over the 4 miles

coming home it is the other way round, 1/2-3/4 mile steep uphill followed by 4 miles i coast down

so my commute average low-mid 70's and all the shorter runs (go get lunch at work, shopping at weekends) drops it back to mid-high 60's over the tank

thisd compared to an average 45-48mpg on my old roomster i am more than happy, would like to see mpg in the 90's on a run just to prove it is capable of it got very close

I'm surprised you're disappointed with fuel economy in the 70s!

Most people are aware that it is unusual to be getting anywhere near the manufacturer quoted figures on a regular basis and its not an issue that's unique to VAG.

Can I ask what car you will be looking at next in order to beat the mpg you are getting from the greenline?

The quoted mpg figures are:

Fuel consumption - Urban

68.9

Fuel consumption - Extra urban

94.2

Fuel consumption - Combined

83.1

I don't expect to achieve the same figures, however I also do not expect to achieve urban figures when my driving falls in the range of mixed and extra urban! At a minimum I would expect combined figure of 83.1 and with all my previous cars the figures I achieved were more closer to the quoted figures. (Assume tyre pressures, fuel quality, weather conditions, summer/winter fuel etc are all taken care off). Someone on this forum had posted a link to a European site for tank-to-tank l/km and the best anyone had achieved on a tank was around 85mpg.

Now the winter is around the corner, the mpg will get worse.

I won't be looking for a new car yet, still have to pay off this one! When I do, I will probably look into electric cars with a 'John Bedini' battery charger capability first...

The quoted mpg figures are:

Fuel consumption - Urban

68.9

Fuel consumption - Extra urban

94.2

Fuel consumption - Combined

83.1

I don't expect to achieve the same figures, however I also do not expect to achieve urban figures when my driving falls in the range of mixed and extra urban! At a minimum I would expect combined figure of 83.1 and with all my previous cars the figures I achieved were more closer to the quoted figures. (Assume tyre pressures, fuel quality, weather conditions, summer/winter fuel etc are all taken care off). Someone on this forum had posted a link to a European site for tank-to-tank l/km and the best anyone had achieved on a tank was around 85mpg.

Now the winter is around the corner, the mpg will get worse.

I won't be looking for a new car yet, still have to pay off this one! When I do, I will probably look into electric cars with a 'John Bedini' battery charger capability first...

Fair enough, I usually think it's reasonable to achieve the quoted combined mpg minus about 5-10mpg ish in the 'real world'.

Just be glad you don't have my Fiat 500 twinair - its quoted at circa 69mpg combined but I usually get about 35-38mpg in mainly town use haha! Didn't buy the blighter for economy tho luckily.