oh yes! no I am not crazy just needed more economy while I travel up an down the motor way over the next couple of years due to a job change.

bought a 2001 1.9 SDi which had 1 owner, FSH, and genuine 39000 miles for £1300 with 6 months tax and a full years MOT

the car is like new! it was only used to pop here and there by a retired lady and she had it garaged when she wasn't using it.

ok so it goes like a snail but when I did I regular trip that would usually use quarter of a tank in my FTO but didn't even register on the Fabia's fuel gauge I cant really argue. plus insurance is dirt cheap!

This was my fto:

my Fabia is a standard silver SDi comfort (AC) so no pics as i'm sure you know what one looks like

Hi and welcome aboard.

Glad you are pleased with the Fabia

Hello and welcome along Shann

yup pleased for now ;-)

already fitted a pioneer BT head unit and got new speakers on the way

got it booked it for cruise control to be retro fitted

and already finding this forum useful after a little breaking problem fixed by looking at peoples past posts with the same problem (vacuum pipe to servo split)

now to tackle them bushes

Hi and welcome to Briskoda , we can see your car on your sig pic anyway

That is true but I put that on after and Hi :-)

Welcome.

Talk about moving to life in the slow lane!

indeed but it's only to tie me over for a while then I will be looking for something faster and the missus can have this beast

Welcome to the forum

Welcome

You managed to find quite a rare machine as there never seem to be many/ if any for sale.

A friend & work colleague of mine bought the booted version shortly after it came out & he managed to get an average of around 68mpg from a tank of diesel, doing 50 mile round trips to work, plus other normal weekend shopping trips.

He mentioned that he managed a 75mpg tank going on holiday & he was doing indicated 70mph on the motorway, so if treated mildly, 70mpg on a reasonably long motorway trip should easily be achieveable.

This little car seems to indicate that progress is not always better when looking at MPG ( in the real world).