Well I reckon we can save the following

£80 reduction on insurance costs even with two kids on the policy (19, 22)

£55 for not needing breakdown cover

£51 for no MOT's

£135 for road tax

£200 service costs per year (three years free servicing with the car)

So that is £521 for each of the first two years saved without taking into account the fuel savings (hopefully tyre costs as well). So lets say around £700 saved for the first two years. Its an no brainer?

Edited 6 March, 201313 yr by Owens

Odd that! I find that every single time I crash my car, my insurance premiums go up not down...

Indeed, insurance is a funny world... She had an 'at fault' crash (slid off the road) and lost her no claims.., but the new car is group 1 insurance remember, not sure what the fabia was but I would estimate about group 12.... So it literally halved.... Saving hundreds of pounds!

Yes it's a nice feeling knowing I will only be paying out this year for one RFL, one MOT and reluctantly a service (I usually do my own but not on a warranted Citigo) With cheaper insurance on both of the cars I run the only other expense is £38 for breakdown cover on the other car, I couldn't add that on to the Skoda assist.

Mick

I'm getting 45mpg on my 75hp up, that's all town driving.. Way better than 28mpg my mini did! By the way I'm using the road trip app to keep tabs, it's cracking little app.

Links or details of the road trip app would be appreciated. Anything which helps to make life easier Thanks.

It's on iOS apple App Store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/road-trip-mpg-mileage-fuel/id298398207?mt=8

The free version does the job, but the paid app lets you add more info with projected annual costs, very cool

I do a mixed motorway (70mph) and innercity (30-40mph) and average 57-62mpg according to my PID.

Maybe fuel economy isn't so important

'Smiles per hour' - definition of fun in a vehicle - The Decoliner:

Youtube video:

Drove to my brother's in stoke and averaged 69. Well chuffed.

We have just completed 440 miles, all urban runs. Tank top up measurement gave 50mpg exactly.

Real world figures for our Citigo 60 SE (mainly with winter tyres, mixed roads, some urban, no motorway use) range from 49.7 to 55.5 mpg (but that's from September to March - should get even better once the warmer weather arrives!)

I use Spritmonitor.de to record my fuel usage.

If you follow this link you will see figures for all the citigo users of the site. Unfortunately the consumptions are in l/100km (in this case the lower the figure the better consumption), but you can see what the best and worst figures are.

There are a few other forum members on there as well.

NOTE: the average of all the entries of all the Citigo cars is 5.52 l/100km (51.2mpg)

One week of ownership and after brimming the day I picked it up now had another brimming. The PID is showing 55.2mpg and actual (brimming 5clicks) 54.4mpg. I am more than happy with this for a tight engine and driving the same roads and style I was only getting 49mpg from the Slumdog i10 (made in India).

I'm only getting about 45-50mpg; which after reading this thread now looks rather disappointing.

However, this is all in heavy stop / start rush hour traffic (ie never get above 3nd gear for 10miles)

For comparison my 1.4 corsa did about 30mph, \my wifes ford KA does about 35/40mpg.

One week of ownership and after brimming the day I picked it up now had another brimming. The PID is showing 55.2mpg and actual (brimming 5clicks) 54.4mpg. I am more than happy with this for a tight engine and driving the same roads and style I was only getting 49mpg from the Slumdog i10 (made in India).

Interesting to see that PID and tank brimming are so close. Another poster found this also, whereas conventional wisdom is/was that there was a difference of about 10% I think...the PID being optimistic. maybe not

Interesting to see that PID and tank brimming are so close. Another poster found this also, whereas conventional wisdom is/was that there was a difference of about 10% I think...the PID being optimistic. maybe not

I was surprised it was so close, time will tell.

Still awaiting my PID. But using fuelly and brimming the tank it returned 52.1

That's the motorway journey back from Essex and general to and from work.

Closest similar mileage in the twinair in the warmer weather and with a few more miles on the clock returned 44mpg.

So far I'm chuffed with it.

Just fuelled up for the 2nd time since receiving my SE Greentech and am disappointed with 'only' 44.4 MPG...It is winter so I guess that's making a difference.

However every other Citigo on Fuelly has better stats...I'm not driving it like an idiot or anything either! Any ideas why I'm not getting many MPGs?

I am hoping these stats will improve...

Edited 23 March, 201313 yr by Quarkt

My first fuel up was around 45 ish. Most of the time it is driven short 5-7 mile into work and back town driving by my wife. when i get a chance it has a steady 75mph motorway drive (on cruse) along the motorway and depending on the traffic and climate can give 55+. but its so new I'm not worried what the consumption is until things get run in and we get used to the car.

However every other Citigo on Fuelly has better stats...I'm not driving it like an idiot or anything either! Any ideas why I'm not getting many MPGs?

The economy will vary greatly depending on the trips you take. Short or long - traffic - how much you have to accelerate and decelerate - how many miles the engine has done.

The fuelly tips are great. Read them all. http://www.fuelly.com/tips/

I've personally tried to test my car in every way possible. I look at the current and average consumption all the time (on the PID) and learn from that. My fuelly numbers will drop as time goes by and I do more / different trips.

I don't use my car every day to commute. It's a tool to explore the area I'm in Mine has better economy now that I've passed the first 6500 km. I believe they say that it should not be perfect until after 15.000 km.

The fuelly tips are great. Read them all. http://www.fuelly.com/tips/

Blimey! Those Fuelly tips are like reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, War and Peace plus the Bible, one after the other!! I immediately glazed over when I saw what these Americans were advising motorists to do; talk about being nannied. I'd find it a real bore to drive like that and I'd rather concentrate fully on my driving than be worrying about saving a thimbleful of fuel. Yes, I suspect that I'd be pleased to get anything over 40mpg.

Blimey! Those Fuelly tips are like reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, War and Peace plus the Bible, one after the other!! I immediately glazed over when I saw what these Americans were advising motorists to do; talk about being nannied. I'd find it a real bore to drive like that and I'd rather concentrate fully on my driving than be worrying about saving a thimbleful of fuel. Yes, I suspect that I'd be pleased to get anything over 40mpg.

We live in a free world - well, most of us do, anyway

Common sense and a little knowledge will go a long way to improve mileage.

@ 60km/h (37mph) on highway, I get 75+ mpg average.

@ 80km/h (50mph) on highway, I get 62 mpg average.

@ 110km/h (68mph) on motorway, I get 56mpg average.

@ 160km/h (99mph) on motorway, I get 26mpg average.

@ 10-30km/h (6-18mph) in traffic on short trips, I get 30-35mpg average.

This should be possible for everyone, since it's the same car (mine is 60Bhp GreenTech).

The trick is all the bits in between - driving sensibly doesn't demand anything from you other than knowing how a car consumes petrol.

The sort of trips you do and the traffic you see is the thing that will impact mileage most - but I would guess that it should be possible to improve the average mileage by 20-50% by just following a few of the tips.

Nothing wrong with not giving a horses ass but money can be saved with proper care and knowledge.

But again - it's a free world

Blimey! Those Fuelly tips are like reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, War and Peace plus the Bible, one after the other!! I immediately glazed over when I saw what these Americans were advising motorists to do; talk about being nannied. I'd find it a real bore to drive like that and I'd rather concentrate fully on my driving than be worrying about saving a thimbleful of fuel. Yes, I suspect that I'd be pleased to get anything over 40mpg.

All sorts of contradictions in there too. Like warm air and cold air intakes.

Dirty air filters do not cost fuel economy in petrols.

One question I have is

Is it better to accelerate slowly up the gears to your cruse speed which can take several hundred plus meters to get the better economy at cruse speed or accelerate fairly quickly in a quarter or so of the distance but get to your cruse speed sooner and better economy?

I have tried both ways with my Ocky DSG and I seem to get better results going a little faster to the cruse speed

PS

When I mean cruse speed I mean the speed that you will normally be travelling on for a particular road and not necessary having cruse control on.

I would think getting into 5th gear as quickly as possible would be the way to go for economy. That doesn't mean you have to sort of pedal to the metal to do it, gently in my opinion. If I'm doing 40mph in the Citigo then it goes into 5th, despite what the gear indicator says.

My other car has the 6th gear and I find I can cruise around locally mainly in 3rd and 4th gear even below 30mph. The Citigo I would have work the gearbox more to get the best out of it.

I've done a few tests when I've been on a long run in the Citigo and can confirm it's at it's best economy wise cruising at around 55mph. My 1.9 diesel, which I parted with for the Citigo would be at it's best economy wise cruising at 65mph. It's very difficult though keeping to the above speeds when everybody around you seems to be flashing past.

I bought the Citigo for the driving that I do now, which is mainly local journeys and occasional trip down the motorway. It's ideal for that use and I'm not worried so much about how much fuel it's using, but I was when I owned the diesel, the price per litre especially.

Mick