My new Superb Estate Elegence Greenline II will be delivered on Friday. Very excited. The first trip will be a weekend with my family in Preston (from Oxford) so it should give me a good run...

Enjoy your new car and have a safe trip.

Don't forget no more than 50mph and stay in the middle lane.

Edited 6 June, 201214 yr by Danny 57

Thanks. I might even push it to 55!

My biggest concern is that I will be coming directly from a 320d which is pretty nippy. Its going to take some getting used to I think.

Ok 55 it is but no more.

Good news birket - hope the family trip goes OK

My biggest concern is that I will be coming directly from a 320d...

Don't forget that the Superb comes with indicators as standard unlike typical beemers...

you can pretend you are a truck driver they can only do 55 mph

Greenline at 55 on motorway means you will spend the time trying to get the mpg number higher. Great way to pass the tIme

Greenline at 55 on motorway:

Even straight out of the box don't be surprised if you get high 60's for mpg

Mine is non greenline 1.6 and I managed an indicated 79mpg earlier this week for a 36 mile trip on A90 at 50-55mph

Though not Greenline specific I find that setting cruise control to just under 60 and sitting in the inside lane makes a motorway journey far less stressful - no need to overtake anything much. That said I only do it for <100 mile journeys otherwise the slower speed eventually drives me nuts

For comparison my 170CR DSG gets a reported mid 50s MPG at 56MPH. My Octavia (140PD remapped to 177) would do high 50s/low 60s.

Thanks. I might even push it to 55!

My biggest concern is that I will be coming directly from a 320d which is pretty nippy. Its going to take some getting used to I think.

You will be very surprised with the performance - especially on the motorway. Enjoy it. I collected my GL SE first week of march and its just turned 8k miles today.

I'm really happy with it.

Just been delivered. 6 miles on the clock. Added 2 miles to that by popping up to give it its first drink of diesel.

First impressions: I have a lot to learn - lots of buttons/gadgets etc. Strange that you seem to have to pair the phone from the maxidot display/steering wheel rather than the main display. Steering wheel feels a bit weird - very very smooth and light feeling. Touch screen will take a bit of getting used to. Certainly nothing like as good as the capacitive screen of an iphone or ipad.

Took out the petrol (diesel) cap to fill it up, but there didn't seem to be anywhere to rest the cap, so you just have to have it dangling around. Is that right?

Need to get myself a cable to connect to my iphone.

Took out the petrol (diesel) cap to fill it up, but there didn't seem to be anywhere to rest the cap, so you just have to have it dangling around. Is that right?

That suprised me too. I've filled mine just twice now and find that I can get the nozzle into the filler pipe with the cap just resting to the right, inside the hinged flap so that it's not swinging against bodywork. Previous cars have had somewhere specific to hang the cap.

You hang the cap on fuel filler door. It has two slots for this

Cheers

Steve

Like this:

Sorry for the poor picture, taken from the manual.

Aha - I see. I will try again in about 600 miles ;-)

Like this:

Sorry for the poor picture, taken from the manual.

Thanks Coops. Neat solution but I wonder about marking the paintwork. At least the flap is plastic. Never though I'd have to refer to a manual to work that one out. Doh!

^{Have been placeing the filler cap on my Skoda's over the years like shown and have not had any scratches. but i do clean the filler area and cap when i wash my cars.}

^{Sorry forgot to say, enjoy your new car.}

Just been delivered. 6 miles on the clock. Added 2 miles to that by popping up to give it its first drink of diesel.

First impressions: I have a lot to learn - lots of buttons/gadgets etc. Strange that you seem to have to pair the phone from the maxidot display/steering wheel rather than the main display. Steering wheel feels a bit weird - very very smooth and light feeling. Touch screen will take a bit of getting used to. Certainly nothing like as good as the capacitive screen of an iphone or ipad.

Took out the petrol (diesel) cap to fill it up, but there didn't seem to be anywhere to rest the cap, so you just have to have it dangling around. Is that right?

Need to get myself a cable to connect to my iphone.

My phone pairs itself all I have to do is press the accept button on the phone when asked to (twice within a minute to minute and a half).

Edited 8 June, 201214 yr by Danny 57

Had this fuel flap on a number of VW group cars over the years, and never had any paint marking problems. And they are fussy when they are handed in so it would have cost me money!

The fuel filler gap is plastic and will not mark your cover in normal use.