Hi, one of my first posts as we ate hoping to buy a yeti very very soon but I can't decide between the 1.2 and 1.4 engine.

The larger engine appeals for the added poke but one of the main reasons to change our current cars is to improve frugality and the brochure on the yeti suggest a 6mpg reduction around town if we go for the 1.4 bringing mpg to 32mpg.

Assuming brochures exaggerate a little that would suggestsub 30 mpg around town.

Does anyone own the 1.4 and what mpg are you getting (with associated driving conditions) and likewise for the 1.2.

Apologies if this thread already exists and thanks in advance

have a look at this thread

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/229895-advice-thinking-about-ordering-a-yeti-dsg/

Real world figures will vary from driver to driver but we currently run a 1.2 DSG that covers both motorway and city driving throughout the week and that averages around 38 MPG (44.1 MPG combined brochure).

You will find a varied response on this. Better fuel consumption over extra performance, price between the engines etc.

Hope the above helps though.

We have a 1.2 DSG and achieve 39mpg regularly in a mixed relaxed driving, no foot down style. Mainly A/B roads 20 mile trips with quite a lot of 150 mile round trips together with 10 mile supermarket trips. You may be able to

get slightly better figure on longer journeys of the order of 42 overall but if you get near the motorway speed

limit the figure quickly descends to the mid 30's especially if loaded up.

Never did believe the brochure figs and you can take off a good 10% to get a meaningful figure.

Dealer tells me you get the same mpg on the 1.2 whether it is manual or DSG.

Edited 5 March, 201214 yr by kibby

I have a 1.4 Fabia and that only gives 36mpg. The 2.0 litre 170 diesel Yeti has averaged 44mpg for the last 26k miles, neither of my cars can achieve the Skoda stated mpg :think:

Thanks very much for the replies.

I guess I was right to be cynical on the mpg, I would appreciate some comments on whether the 6 mpg difference around town between the 1.2 and 1.4 is fair.

We will do about 8k miles pa in this car so I don't think we can justify a diesel and will probably have more problems due to the school run nature of the driving if we did go diesel.

The only person with both 1.2 and 1.4 is lok from Serbia. It would be difficult to comment from test drives.

I get 42 mpg around town, and up to 48 on a run of I take my time (ie keep it below 70 mph)

Thanks very much for the replies.

I guess I was right to be cynical on the mpg, I would appreciate some comments on whether the 6 mpg difference around town between the 1.2 and 1.4 is fair.

We will do about 8k miles pa in this car so I don't think we can justify a diesel and will probably have more problems due to the school run nature of the driving if we did go diesel.

If you are doing only 8k per annum then I doubt whether the price of fuel should be a determining step in your calculations. 1.2 TSI is in a lower tax band and lower insurance group than 1.4 TSi so will save you money, and for school run type driving I doubt whether you would ever notice the power difference between the two.

I would say knock 20% (or to be pedantic 17.5%) off the stated EU combined figs for VW group vehicles.

This for diesel anyway, not so sure about petrol though the 20% would probably be nearenough/ OK

just a thought

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Edited 6 March, 201214 yr by dieseldogg

You wont notice diff. in city driving conditions!

Go for 1.2 TSI.

Ok...ok... in Romania: in town it's about 10.5 l % and out of city including highway with maximum sped arround 130-140 km/h is 8.3-8.5 %.