Asking abit much i know but im saving for a mortgage with the missus and am getting bored of driving the vrs around..im a petrolhead you see :p

anyone recommend any cars theyve had any experience with that are good on fuel?

How good on fuel? Expected mpg?

Erm none??

If you want mpg its either diesel or petrol/hybrid (prius )

No petrol sporty car gets good mpg!

I have a golf gt tsi 170! Its twin charged and rather rapid. On a run you can get 40mpg and a bit more if taking easy! Average mpg is around 35-36 which is as bout as good as your going to get for the power

Any quick petrol is going to feel like it's drinking fuel after the Fabia.

Had a CTR which averaged 34 mpg. That was a mixture of town, back-roads and VTEC.

Only issue is they go for about 3500 for a good one.

What about a 306 GTI-6?

sporty and good MPG never fall into the same category when buying petrol...

Vtec engines do good MPG when you dont hoon it but they are crap when driven normally and you wont get a good one cheap.

just wait untill you have a house after you've saved the money then buy something faster and petrol. end of the day the VRS isnt slow...

Can get over 40 out of my Polo. Depends what you define as quick too I guess though. . .

My car before the vrs was a punto sporting mk2. Has great fun in it, and would regularly get 40mpg even hooning about.

On a good run would see the good side of 50mpg... Wouldn't win any land speed records or many races, but was a good laugh on back roads...

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Didn't the Panda 100HP get good fuel economy?

Our petrol Fabia VRS has an average of 38 mpg, keep your foot up and it gets better.

I was going to suggest a mark 2 as well.

They are ugly though and look about as sporty as a granny in a tracksuit

They are ugly though and look about as sporty as a granny in a tracksuit

I'm with you on that one Jase.

I found that my remapped Octavia was returning an average of 34mpg over the 18 months I kept a petrol log, which isn't too bad. If I was careful it'd return aboput 40mpg on a run with three kids & all the stuff in the boot and on my 7 mile commute to work, about 35 mpg. Unless you have a fairy godmother with a wand, I don't think you can have cheap, fast, fun and economical as a package.

One other option is have a budget of say £3000, spend £2000 on the car and have what's left for the extra in fuel for a couple of years and enjoy yourself. Just a thought.

Or buy a fast motor and keep change for an lpq conversion!

Old golf mk4 4motion v6 with lpg conversion! Would be nice!

Didn't the Panda 100HP get good fuel economy?

Mine averaged around 38mpg over the 60k miles I put on it, but it was driven "enthusiastically" for pretty much all of those miles. If you didn't use the full rev range, I'm sure it would have been more frugal, but I think it would also stop being such a fun car too.

Chris

Old golf mk4 4motion v6 with lpg conversion! Would be nice!

If you're going down the LPG route, you might as well do it properly to a car with decent performance

Chris

I can get 50+mpg from my fabia vRS (tsi) on a gentle drive to work, 45 mpg under "normal" circumstances, 35mpg when hooning around....

Just had a thought. What do you call cheap? To me, £500 is cheap but to some people £5k is cheap. Also, do you need to carry children or other adults around? My car is cheap - about £2k - it's petrol and is fairly low on insurance, tax and fuel. Fast it isn't, but fun it is. We have managed all five of us in the car on a short run, but I wouldn't want to do a long haul in it.

I've been looking at the old Primera eGT and GT recently as I always liked them. They cost about £600 upwards and qualify for the old road tax as they are old enough. Insurance is also quite good value. I used to work for Nissan in Rotherham and sold a few whilst I was there. I remember my first drive in an eGT and I scared myself. By today's standards they are nothing special, but there's loads of old cars out there I'd like to own for a bit.

It depends on what floats yer boat.

Clio 172/182 aren't supposed to be too bad on fuel especially the older ones (40s). You might have some money to spend on repairs but they're pretty cheap to buy.

You can squeeze a surprising amount of stuff in them too and most have a split rear seat.

I had looked at the clios but id be tempted to give them a good thrashing so wouldnt probably see thr good side of 30mpg haha looks the fabia vrs may be staying anyway

Trying to have your cake and eat it, are you? Don't work. The best you can do is Remap your you Fabia and give it some welly, My Mk1 VRS was 205bhp and 35mpg, definitely fun and frugal, as good as it gets.

Asking abit much i know but im saving for a mortgage with the missus and am getting bored of driving the vrs around..im a petrolhead you see :p

anyone recommend any cars theyve had any experience with that are good on fuel?

Get a motorcycle.

Like some above had said what do you define as quick and what is cheap?

To me quick is sub 4 second to 60 mph and SS 1/4m in less than 12 seconds.

Bike can do that in and still cost you "only" £4K and be almost new.

As for a car how about a SEAT Leon Cupra R of a few years ago?

225hp, 0-60 in 6 seconds, 155 mph top speed ie same as most cars that have not been derestricted, will do mid thirties average, low 40s on a curisuing run.

Disadvantages, suspension pretty hard, who owned it before ie has it been "properly" used, prefers 98 Octane fuel?

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bike will probably be worse on gas than a car. most superbikes have pretty awful mpg.

Mind you your getting around 1000hp a ton with an R1 which is better than a Veyron.

Cupra r will never get 40mpg

I had the 180 octy vrs. Best EVER was 42mpg and that was driving like a saint! Average was around 30! Normal easy driving was 36/37