Hi all, just driven down to Spain in the car, very impressed......on a long drive it was very comfortable, far more comfortable than the 2008 Civic it has replaced, the car behaved impeccably.

We filled up a few days before we left and the driving had mainly been on motorways sticking to 65/70 mph.......I maintained this on the trip down to Dover and the first 150 miles or so in France.........over 603 miles the car averaged 60.7 mpg.....calculated myself not by the trip computer........because is an S spec I dont have one!!

After filling up we cruised at or just above the speed limit of 130kph/81.25mph to our overnight stop and set off the following morning mainatining the same sort of speed..........over 563 miles the avergage dropped to 54.8 mpg

We filled up again and dropped our speed to 110/120kph/70/75mph for the last few miles in France and the drive to home in Spain, over 540 miles the average consumption was 59.7 mpg

The car was well loaded with air con on all the time.

Interesting to see the effect on consumption of that extra few mph on the speed.

Regards all from a hot and sunny Spain

Juan

I've just come back from an 1800 mile trip from N Ireland to Kidderminster area, down to Kent for a week, plus 400 miles in France and then home.( 2008 1.9 pdi with Dsg) Never really went over 60mph, overall average was 59.5 on the trip computer. My target was 60 but traffic was slow up the M6 last night and I had to divert across country. I measured the distance on Sat nav but haven't filled up yet to check actual consumption, miles underread so I usually find the computer figure pretty close.

On the way down to Kent, got a brilliant 67.2, no road delays that particular trip. As in previous post, once speed goes over 60, economy drops quickly.

All that self control is tedious, car's going to get caned once I've filled up!

car's going to get caned once I've filled up!

good lad