Very impressed with economy. After picking my car up went home via the the long way round - 50 or so miles around the countryside and a bit of town too. On the PID 65 mpg just driving normal and with the steel wheels and snow tires on. That was on a freezing cold day. As this is only going to improve after running in, this is going to be a very cheap car to run. Impressed with the stop start too.

Crista, that's impressive. May I ask what model exactly that you have? I'm interested myself in checking the Citigo out. I had visions of buying another diesel but I'm having a rethink. I'm actually a confirmed diesel head but these days my miles each year are declining and I ride motorcycles much more than I drive a car. My wife uses the car more than me but I still like to use the four wheeler from time to time. What sort of speeds were you hitting on your way home?

I usually find that using the PID unit initially shows fantastic figures which can be as much as 10% out. These cars can return fantastic figures if driven really carefully but in the real world my figures were rather different to that of the PID. I consider myself as having a very light right foot, so don't drive any vehicle I own hard, especially the Citigo as I'm still running it in.

My consumption figures from my first full tank of fuel which included a motorway/A road journey of around 250 miles and the rest start/stop town like motoring returned a figure of 52mpg.

My second tank of fuel which was all town like driving, mainly short drives of no more than 3-5 miles and returned a figure of 44mpg.

These figures are worked out using the tank of fuel then filling up again to the first click on the nozzle trigger. I have usually managed to put in between 31-32 litres.

So I'm happy with these figure (real time) and not disappointed as I never expected the quoted manufacturers figures anyway.

Before the Citigo I owned a 1.9 diesel and that returned more or less similar figures to the Citigo. But at 6p per litre more to buy the fuel and of course higher other running costs associated with running a big 5 door hatch, I ditched it for the Citigo as it suits my needs now.

Mick

Crista, that's impressive. May I ask what model exactly that you have? I'm interested myself in checking the Citigo out. I had visions of buying another diesel but I'm having a rethink. I'm actually a confirmed diesel head but these days my miles each year are declining and I ride motorcycles much more than I drive a car. My wife uses the car more than me but I still like to use the four wheeler from time to time. What sort of speeds were you hitting on your way home?

Its the 75 Bhp Elegance Green Tech. I would expect the PID to be up to 10% optimistic and even based on that I was still doing about 60 mpg. This tankful won't be brim to brim as I am still using the 1/2 tank put in by my Dealer. Next time I will brim it and then report back. I am however expecting to get very good figures. I expected the mpg to be slightly worse having removed the Eco tires/alloys and replaced with the steels and snow tires. That said they are very skinny tires and just maybe they have less rolling resistance. They are certainly very quiet and the ride is very comfortable maybe because of the higher profile and softer compound. As far as the speeds that I was driving at I was basically driving to the speed limits. So 50-60 on single carriageway, 65'ish on dual carriageway and 30/40'ish around town. I am running in so accelerating fairly easily (but not pussy footing) - changing gear regularly and no more than 4000 rpm for now. I also totally ignored the gear shift indicator. I was a diesel head but my wife's Yeti with the 1.2 TSI engine and this little cracker have converted me back again. One thing that I was getting fed up with on diesel was the length of time to warm up in the winter - not so with these little petrols. I was a biker up until 5 weeks ago until some guy T boned me - four wheels for me from now on.

Well, if it's 10% out i got an indicated 74 mpg on a run to Skegness on the August bank holiday, so that would 67mpg real world figures. I believe the 60ps Greentech (which i have) has a maximum of 68mpg, so i was very happy with that!

ash has had 60 mpg on hers already

I checked my tire pressures today for the first time since picking the car up on Monday. They were 26 psi all round and according to my instructions they should be 33 front and 30 back for low loads so now corrected and I would expect even better economy. No wonder the ride was soft and comfortable!!

According to PID 59.19 mpg here on a mixed A class roads and short Motorway of about 40 miles. Only about 200 miles done so far. I'm very happy with that given such low mileage. Should reach target goal in time.

Its the 75 Bhp Elegance Green Tech. I would expect the PID to be up to 10% optimistic and even based on that I was still doing about 60 mpg. This tankful won't be brim to brim as I am still using the 1/2 tank put in by my Dealer. Next time I will brim it and then report back. I am however expecting to get very good figures. I expected the mpg to be slightly worse having removed the Eco tires/alloys and replaced with the steels and snow tires. That said they are very skinny tires and just maybe they have less rolling resistance. They are certainly very quiet and the ride is very comfortable maybe because of the higher profile and softer compound. As far as the speeds that I was driving at I was basically driving to the speed limits. So 50-60 on single carriageway, 65'ish on dual carriageway and 30/40'ish around town. I am running in so accelerating fairly easily (but not pussy footing) - changing gear regularly and no more than 4000 rpm for now. I also totally ignored the gear shift indicator. I was a diesel head but my wife's Yeti with the 1.2 TSI engine and this little cracker have converted me back again. One thing that I was getting fed up with on diesel was the length of time to warm up in the winter - not so with these little petrols. I was a biker up until 5 weeks ago until some guy T boned me - four wheels for me from now on.

Thanks Crista, sounds like you are having fun. If your fuel computer is off by around 10%, that's not unusual to start with. As you cover more and more miles you will find the computer reflects more and more the real mpg figure. Currently your ecu is learning (adopts learning mode from the factory until 3,000 miles) how you drive and what gears you are using, speeds etc and it won't be totally accurate. It's a very basic learning mode but it does non the less make a difference to economy in the early miles. But once you've cover 3k miles it should be like most other Skodas, pretty accurate. Of course your engines will become more powerful and economical too as the miles go on. Glad to hear you are ignoring the gear change inicator lights. These often are misleading and encourage you to take the next gear too early. The engine often ends up labouring using more fuel! Quite ironic really. Sorry to hear about being 't' boned. That's tough luck and hope you weren't hurt to any extent. I spend more time on two wheels than on four but a car is so essential for my wife and me too in many ways. Our Fabia diesel is fantastic and has never given us any problems whatsoever. But these new petrol engines are far superior now for the short to medium trips and even the longer ones. It's a bonus they warm up so fast too. Enjoy your new cars you lot! I'll check in from time to time to see how you are all getting on. Drive safe everyone!

Edited 2 November, 201213 yr by Estate Man

Tonight I convoyed with some family (not enough seats on a minibus) from my home in Chatham, round to 6 other places in medway (totalling about 15 miles of town driving) then down the M20, M26 M25 to Croydon, I then took my cousin from there to Roehampton Uni, and then from there straight through london around 10:30-11:30 pm (well A3/A205 A2) onto the A2/M2 totalling around 100+ miles with an indicated 62 mpg, I Have worked out tho that the entire trip has cost me around £12-£13 in petrol, and considering I was given £10 from the family for doing the driving im only £3 out of pocket :p

I love this car!

Collected our white greentech from lookers Stockport yesterday.

I have read the running in thread on here and wanted to be careful in the first few miles, so I avoided the motorway to begin with.

After about an hour I gave up and headed for knutsford and the M6 south to Dorset.

Running in instructions say no more than 75% revs in any gear so that's no more than 4,500 rpm.

As it seemed quite happy at an indicated 80mph and a tad over 3,500 rpm I headed south.

At the start if the journey the PID was giving appalling consumption figures, due to the delivery miles.

Anyway, the journey home was fantastic, not a lot of traffic and apart from a few SPECS sections speed was fairly consistent.

The last 50 miles or so are all A roads, we don't have motorways in Dorset!

I did 255 miles in 5 hours dead, at an average of 51mph and 51mpg, which I think is fantastic.

The car was very comfortable and more than able to maintain speed up motorway gradients.

I am glad I opted for the entertainment pack, the sound quality is very good indeed, not as good as the yeti 12 speaker system, but I never expected it to be so.

I am amazed how a tiddly little engine (60ps) has so much grunt.

I expect it would suffer with more than 1 up and a boot full of luggage, but that is not what we bought this car for!

Looking fwd to see what it can do consumption wise on local journeys....

I've done 250 miles now and on a Saturday I usually take Mrs to work (instead of her driving) then I pick up and in way home we find a nice curry etc. I am the worst in the world at bring on time and my Mrs can mentally destroy me without uttering a word if I'm late - all said in fun. Well yesterday I was a bit late so 60/65 would not have achieved the 20 mile trip in time. Although not run in yet the engine feels nice and free so I whizzed along (4500 limit) without thrashing but much faster than before. I had the heated seats in and AC part of the way to clear the screen quickly and by the time we got home we were on 62 mpg. This is just the sort of car that I have been looking for - well pleased. It is the 75 Bhp one and although on paper the power doesn't appear to make any difference until the top end I'm finding it very nippy.

Not too impressed with the economy on our Citigo SE 60bhp in the first 200 miles, considering it gets a good 32 mile round trip daily on mixed roads during the week and at least one long run every weekend. lowest mpg of 50.4, highest of 55.5 - decent enough for autumn, will hopefully improve in summer.

Martin

Oops, I meant 2,000 miles, not 200 ( yes, the engine has properly run in by now! )

Martin

right, been for my first long drive in ash's citygo (60ps) 40 miles today.... got 68 mpg on the way there and 65.7 on the way back not bad me thinks as its only done 2k... sure it will improve with miles, 70mpg+ should be easily acheivable...

Nice job Dave. On my way back from the dealer in howling wind and, err... experimenting with the car it showed 55mpg without me even trying to be economical. When I get a longer trip in I'll see what it will do.

dont think shes ever seen less than 50 TBH Mike..... she does alot of stop start driving and gets about 52... litterally driving from house to house, stopping letting it cool ect , about the worst you could do for economy...

sure after a few more thousand miles, I can get high 70's

Took it for an hours drive around the back roads, and a little through town. 61mpg and the car has only done 170 miles. Not bad

Damn, it corners well

Doing quite a lot of short runs, ours is returning an indicated 48.1 mpg on the PID over the last 400 miles.

Took it for an hours drive around the back roads, and a little through town. 61mpg and the car has only done 170 miles. Not bad

Damn, it corners well

it does corner well... what tyres you got ? (hopefully better than your hated tauranzes onthe fabia!) ash's are michelin enery at 185/55/15 flavour.... I was thinking with the weight of the citygo, on 185's it probably has more tyre patch per weight than my vRS at 205's on 1200kgs...... it handels really well... little roll, shed loads of grip.... its quite twitchy, probably due to the small wheel base, but the ultimate grip is there...

I have some winters for her in a few weeks... 2 conti winters so far with 6 mill....bidding on a couple more

I will deffo check out the up! GT next year (wish skoda would use the turbo engine) imagine a TMC box on it,,,,, 140bhp with about 800kg to shift !

feebet: short runs will harm the readouts as its not getting up to temp..... still 48+ on short runs is pretty good!

Damn, it corners well

Blackandwhite no longer likes corners ...

I have the Bridgestone Ecopias, so far no complaints about them, they seem pretty grippy The Fabias Turanzas were OK for corner grip and very responsive, but traction in the wet was pants. They would have lasted more than 20k miles easily though.

Blackandwhite no longer likes corners ...

aww, Citigo will look after you though

Are we talking PID readouts here for mpg or have posters actually worked out their real world mpg (miles travelled since last fill-up divided by litres of fuel, then result multiplied by 4.546 to get mpg)? My mpg figures of between 50.5 and 55.5 are real world.

Martin

I'm using PID reading. I can never remember to write things down when I fill up. The manufacturer figures are taken over just one "journey", not the full tank, so if PID says I'm close to the combined figure when I'm driving normally, then I'm happy.