It's not a vRS, but it looks a bit like one...

About to hit 470 miles, on the last section of fuel guage (15 miles left in the tank apprently).

MPG average screen on my pikey non-maxi dot says 51mpg or something.

I'm hoping the first service will help that figure creep up, as my "commute" is not MPG friendly, when coupled with the Monte's gearing.

51 not mpg friendly ? I think it is pretty good imho

At 730miles from new I averaged 31 mpg at the moment. I do hope it will get better, and I think I can all the way to 40 mpg in years time then I am happy.

I will be driving to Birmingham (110 miles one way) in a week and a half so I will check how does it do on long'ish pure motorway drive.

Yeah wish I was getting that sorta MPG, though I don't think I could bare to drive anymore MPG friendly.

I have managed a few journeys at that sorta MPG but that was coasting down hills, coasting towards stationary traffic, coasting to traffic lights, keeping it very low revs through the journey and coasting where possible.

After a journey like that I just want to stab myself in the eye, so tend to just drive it reasonable now and get what I get from it.

^^^^ coasting now that's a can of worms you've opened up lol

Well it works when used in the right circumstances, I have had a journey at over 60mpg in mine.

Norm is around 38-39 mpg though, just cant stand driving like grandad everywhere to get better MPG. If I was that bothered about MPG I would walk or cycle as it happens I aint.

I think there's nothing wrong in coasting in appropriate circumstances. What is the point of accelerating hard and then brake equally hard when you can clearly see a mile down the road there's a solid traffic before you? Coasting EVERYWHERE is criminal in vRS!

Equally no point in yo-yo'ing in heave morning traffic, I'd rather coast on overrun in D7 as much as I can as my red line blasts elsewhere need some equalisation

Coasting (in neutral or clutch pedal down), or decelerating in gear rather than braking?

One saves fuel, the other doesn't.

In D7 coasting and decelerating at the same time. In D7 retardation is minimal and it is effectively overrun so injectors are closed and no fuel being used.

Ah - thats where I might have got the definition confused. Overrun to me is in gear, coasting to me means basically disengaged from the motive power unit. Having played around with the "coasting" theory a few years back (when the majority of cars were carb'd which is where it makes the biggest difference) I didn't like the "runaway" feeling of a car in neutral - let alone the idea of turning the engine off to save even more fuel.

Likewise, no point in paying extra for Stop-Start tech for me. If I want to turn the engine off, I will. I can see if the traffic is moving ahead - the controller box can't!

Is it just me, or does this gearbox engine brake going downhill?

If going down a good incline and braking, the box will change down to increase engine braking...

Mine neer done it so far and inclines are rather steep - a subjective statement but the car accelerates going down even if i downshift manually to third

It still gathers speed - just less of it, and i'm going down the hill at 30mph in 3rd (so not quietly!) instead of dawdling in 5th..

So you are saying that your car would down-shift by itself when in "D" while you are going down hill, not braking and car gathers speed?

My one just goes faster in "D7" and will not down-shift unless I start braking and speed drops off to warrant a down-shift.

It only downshifts IF i'm braking going downhill - and regularly drops 2 (once 3) gears. Could just be the incline I go down - its about a good few hundreds long. If (for example) I was doing 30(ish - so 5th or maybe 6th) and as the speed increases, it downshifts one gear at a time, ending up at about 4000rpm by the time it levels out - at which point it starts changing up again - although I then have to come to a stop at the junction at the bottom!

Interesting. Not my experience at all!

Next time I go down a good hill, i'll see if I can replicate it...

A vRS on a longish downhill will show it as doing 200 mpg.

Last time i had miles & miles of this showing it was doing 22 mpg to get up there in the first place.

george

Pretty sure mine's gone --- (signalling no fuel usage at all) - definitely saw that on the Scirocco.

When I go down on overrun in D7 maxidot shows dashes "----". If I switch to "N" then it shows 200mpg..

BTW, really nice photos of very scenic roads!

I never go to 'N' when driving.

That is 200 mpg on Average, not coming up on Instant. not really doing that,

but after for a few miles it will stay at anything from 75-90 MPG AVG..

george

a shown 200 mpg can quickly drop to 15 mpg.

Depends greatly on the direction.

After some city driving, I filled up with $50 petrol. DTE read 560km. That evening I took the car for a "milk run" (clue, I went about 80km and forgot the milk) on freeways and back roads at an average 60kph, and when I finished the DTE said 600km...

Jabo, as I said, it's not a vRS - it's a Monte, supposed to be able to do 67mpg (if you believe the Govt figures).

My commute is not a good place to try and get good economy - too many big throttle hills, followed by single track roads, meaning low gears.

I filled up with Esso Premium Diesel yesterday (after I got 470 out of the last tank), so I'll see if that makes any difference.

I was driving a mkiv golf v6 before my VRS estate, that car was thirsty. I'd get just over 300 miles of motorway driving from a 62 Litre tank and 18 mpg around town. C02 264 gm/km! I averaged 48 mpg driving my new VRS, 220 miles up the M6. They may be thirsty compared to a small diesel but they are a massive improvement over big NA petrols. Don't sound as good though!

(both cars being driven at 70 mph)

What we should be comparing 1.4 twincharged to 2.3 naturally aspirated engines to get a more realistic picture. No point comparing it to Diesel motors really.