Hi guys just wondering what speed you all do on the motorway to achieve the best mpg? I've just got a vRS and am still getting used to driving it as its my first turbo car. I do a 200 mile round trip every weekend tothe girlfriends house so wanting to know how I can use the least money

Also my Furbie is an 05 reg is, can anyone confirm if this is the ASZ engine or the BLT? Many thanks.

Mines an '05 ASZ, there's a sticker in the boot which will confirm.

Sitting at 70 I currently get about 45 mpg :(

A "well" vRS should hit about 60 mpg IMO at that speed

You'll see better mpg at 50 than at 70, but do you really want to work for £6 an hour on your day off?

You'll see better mpg at 50 than at 70, but do you really want to work for £6 an hour on your day off?

Are you basing that on your car though?

50mph you can't even comfortably use 6th gear and would be laboring the engine.

I used to get about 60/61mpg at 70mph with cruise control in my ASZ Cordoba.

Even high speed (100mph up to 143mph) Autobahn drives with 4 adults saw 47mpg.

Phil

at a 65mph cruise I get around 65mpg

ASZ, long 6th

at a 65mph cruise I get around 65mpg

ASZ, long 6th

Yes the ASZ's had a really long 6th. 1900rpm was 70mph. 3000rpm and you were well into triple figures!

I think that's was allowed the gps speed of 143mph we saw once!

Phil

It was only the early vRS that got the super long 6th gear. It was revised some time in early 2004.

On a long run, 70mph on cruise control, dead easy to get 65mpg

Hi guys just wondering what speed you all do on the motorway to achieve the best mpg? I've just got a vRS and am still getting used to driving it as its my first turbo car. I do a 200 mile round trip every weekend tothe girlfriends house so wanting to know how I can use the least money

The simple answer for best economy.......drive at the lowest speed you can in top gear without the engine labouring. I guess in a vRS this would be 55 mph or there abouts. I see 70 MPG on my 1.9TDI PD100 doing this.

The question is, how slow can you bear to drive?!

Thanks guys, I was doing 60 with CC this morning on a 30 mile journey and hit 60mpg so was pretty pleased with that !

When you say 70 mph, is that 70 as indicated on your speedometer.

Well it may not be correct because on my Micro Fusion radar detector (which is legal because it works off GPS) when it is indicating 70 mph, my car speedometer would show 79 mph, my true speed on my Micro Fusion is always endorsed by any roadside speed indicator as correct, whether 30, 40 or 50 mph.

Food for thought.

DB.

Edited 28 February, 201313 yr by mogwye

I think mins pretty crap on motorway. I tend to find mine is brilliant on a long run on A roads!

Are you basing that on your car though?

50mph you can't even comfortably use 6th gear and would be laboring the engine.

I used to get about 60/61mpg at 70mph with cruise control in my ASZ Cordoba.

Even high speed (100mph up to 143mph) Autobahn drives with 4 adults saw 47mpg.

Phil

The numbers were picked because they're easy to work with to realise that that driving slower might save you a gallon of fuel, but you spend an hour longer on the trip.

50mph you can't even comfortably use 6th gear and would be laboring the engine.

It is said that above about 40 mph, wind resistance is the biggest factor affecting fuel consumption. Certainly I find that an indicated 50 mph in 5th is more economical than an indicated 60 mph in 6th in our PD130 Octavia.

when i drive at 70mph i was averaging 57-59 mpg and i've got the blt engine, on a good run in fifth at 50 mph i've managed 90 mpg, if i'm not in a rush to get home i'll trundle along at 50 at returns about 60 mpg, thing is its hit or miss, amount of traffic and weather will affect your mpg, best full tank return has been 535 miles with 70 in left in tank fuel light on using shell city diesel, never trust that figure though, i will normally get then 45-48 litres in the tank then using the button inside the neck of the tank. press this when the fuel is up the top of the neck and you will fit in more diesel.

The numbers were picked because they're easy to work with to realise that that driving slower might save you a gallon of fuel, but you spend an hour longer on the trip.

This is the trade off when fuel saving.

When you extrapolate your calculation over a month for someone doing 14,000 per year, the saving is £36 per month (£432/annum). In my case that would pay for my insurance, road tax, and 6 lottery tickets a month!

This is the trade off when fuel saving.

When you extrapolate your calculation over a month for someone doing 14,000 per year, the saving is £36 per month (£432/annum). In my case that would pay for my insurance, road tax, and 6 lottery tickets a month!

Sure, but you're worked an extra 2 weeks a year to save that money. In the OP's case, I'd rather spend an extra hour a week with my gf.

Sure, but you're worked an extra 2 weeks a year to save that money.

Well sort of. It's an extra 80 hours in the car per year driving at 50 mph instead of 70 mph over 14000 miles. It's not really work though is it......so half a week would be more accurate.

Which isn't so bad when you consider that most of us probably spend a full week per year scratching our a**e's!

Well sort of. It's an extra 80 hours in the car per year driving at 50 mph instead of 70 mph over 14000 miles. It's not really work though is it......so half a week would be more accurate.

Which isn't so bad when you consider that most of us probably spend a full week per year scratching our a**e's!

Yes, and I only work 40 hours a week, not 160. My point is that your pay rate is a factor in whether or not "saving fuel" is worthwhile.

OK take it with a pinch of salt because I don't beleive the computer however I did a journey down to London earlier this year and by the time I came off the M25 my car was reporting 72mpg! Now I didn't go over 60mph and most of the journey between stoke and the toll road was sitting at around 45mph (traffic - not my choice) so the trip was pretty boring but it does rack up the mpg rating

Urban use I normally get around 45-50mpg while 60mph motorway use normally sees 55-65mpg.

Again all the MPG figures are what the computer in the car claims.

wilsonian

i agree, i calculate from tank full to tank full for mpg, aslong as i can get 500 miles out of a tank full i'm happy.

Are you basing that on your car though?

50mph you can't even comfortably use 6th gear and would be laboring the engine.

I used to get about 60/61mpg at 70mph with cruise control in my ASZ Cordoba.

Even high speed (100mph up to 143mph) Autobahn drives with 4 adults saw 47mpg.

Phil

You can quite comfortably use 6th at 40-50.. mine even trundles along at 35 in 6th without causing trouble and 30 in 5th.. different cars have different gear ratios OC I get about 55mpg most of the time on bendy country roads going between 40 and 60 in gears 5 and 6.. at 80 on the motorway i get about 50 ish.. goes up obviously when you hit the variable speed limits this improves ..

In regards to the Autobahn, mine drops to about 35 to 40mpg at about 115 to 120mph as i say depends on the gear ratios

Chris

My point is that your pay rate is a factor in whether or not "saving fuel" is worthwhile.

I guess so.

If you are very wealthy then why bother at all?......but if we are all perfectly honest with ourselves, we wouldn't be driving around in Skoda's (even though I like Skoda's...I own 2!) and frequenting forums discussing MPG if we were all in that position.

You can quite comfortably use 6th at 40-50.. mine even trundles along at 35 in 6th without causing trouble and 30 in 5th.. different cars have different gear ratios OC I get about 55mpg most of the time on bendy country roads going between 40 and 60 in gears 5 and 6.. at 80 on the motorway i get about 50 ish.. goes up obviously when you hit the variable speed limits this improves ..

In regards to the Autobahn, mine drops to about 35 to 40mpg at about 115 to 120mph as i say depends on the gear ratios

Chris

Yours must be the later shorter geared one then.

No way could I use 6th until at least 50 on the flat and any pressure on the throttle would be torturing the DMF! lol

Phil

TBH I regularly pop into 6th at around 45ish.

aslong as i can get 500 miles out of a tank full i'm happy

On a motorway trip I'm lucky to get 450ish. If it's driving to work and back I usually get around 330-350ish as I tend to be heavy footed.. lol

We regularly got 600+ miles from a tank on long runs in the Cordoba (same size tank as Fabia).

It was slightly more aerodynamic than a Fabia though so don't know if that had an effect on it?!

Phil