I was a little worried at first, but now I'm approaching 5k, things are noticebly better.

Sometimes this makes buying 'nearly new' a great idea.

I was a little worried at first, but now I'm approaching 5k, things are noticebly better.

Sometimes this makes buying 'nearly new' a great idea.

Ours was an ex demonstrator but it only had 60 miles on it so has all the running in to get the better mpg to do.

Presume it is best around the 60 to 70 mph indicated mark as it is not the most aerodynamic car with a Cd of 0.33.

Edited 27 March, 201214 yr by lol

even the distance between 60 and 70 is quite big with the fuel economy! I've got a 300 mile motorway journey comming up... I wont be worring about speeed cameras! lol..

Octy cd is 0.33 Fabias is 0.37

So the Furby will suffer a lot more with increasing speed than an Octy. Using my own car to illustrate, a steady 70 indicated in good conditions (little or no wind) can get 50mpg given a long run. At 80 indicated, it will be 39mpg.

If I drop to 65 I should approach 55mpg, but I haven't tried that yet.

The vRS will be lower, so if you want a chance of guaranteeing 50mpg, I think you'd be looking at 65mph tops.

Edited 28 March, 201214 yr by Mike Wrightson

God the Fabia is a brick... my car has a coefficient of 0.3

It's pretty impressive how good these cars are on fuel. They're no slow car and probably not many other cars with 180bhp that can achieve these kind of fuel figures... I will, however, be sticking to diesel

Phil

To be fair, the Fabia was never intended to be a motorway muncher, it's an urban runaround. It does motorways well, but just not as efficiently as, say, an Octavia.

Yeh. It can hardly be called a weak point of the car. It will still hapilly cruise on the motorway... it will just move more air around it in the process.

I really do like them though. And the engine/gearbox even more.

Phil

Octy cd is 0.33 Fabias is 0.37

So the Furby will suffer a lot more with increasing speed than an Octy. Using my own car to illustrate, a steady 70 indicated in good conditions (little or no wind) can get 50mpg given a long run. At 80 indicated, it will be 39mpg.

If I drop to 65 I should approach 55mpg, but I haven't tried that yet.

The vRS will be lower, so if you want a chance of guaranteeing 50mpg, I think you'd be looking at 65mph tops.

Think you need to recheck your source info, is it for Mark 1 OCty and Fabia perhaps?

Fabia Mk 2 is around 0.33 Cd depending on the model and Octavia Mk 2 around 0.3 Cd, slightly lower for Greenlines.

This is why our Octavia TSI VRS, for example, has a higher top speed than the Golf GTI despite have 10 hp less ie 151 mph compared to 148/9 mph for thre GTI and why the Octy TSI got the land speed record at 227 mph and the Fabia VRS holds many of the MSA substained speed records in the UK broken by 5th Gear for holding 135 mph consistently until the tyre came a part.

Edited 31 March, 201214 yr by lol