Hi, I've currently got a mk2 Octavia Vrs, but the fuel costs has forced me to look for a more economical car. The car i'd like to change to is a Fabia mk1 Vrs. The question is, I do about 140 miles a week urban driving and I have to normaly fill up my tank every 10 days. How often would I need to fill up the Fabia if I did the same mileage? My car averages about 22-29mpg.

From posts on here and experience, older MK1 VRS's tend to average circa 44/45MPG. Based on that, 140 miles a week at £1.43/litre diesel is just under £21.

Same. I avg about 46mpg on 50% central london traffic, 40% motorway and 10% spirited driving down A roads.

Pace generally good, not overly conservative in terms of speed but reading traffic better than the avg joe I guess.

I get 50s when mainly on a roads even with spirited driving.

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Remember the Fabia has a smaller tank but expect around 400 miles from a tank

I filled mine last weekend then topped up last night in preparation for a drive up the country, id done 122miles and it look £20.45. Was mainly 30-60mph areas and one 5 min blast:)

Tbh I know that the octy will be costing you a lot to run because big turbo petrol engine but with 140 miles a week ( take the car out of the question) and a diesel if its purely town driving could cost just as much because of the price and the fact that its not stretching it's legs. Example: my mate used to have a

fiesta st and he traded it in for a fabia vrs SE and he did the same journey everyday and it was costing him nearly £10 more a week to run the fabia :/ because of the type of driving he was doing the fiesta was cheaper to run! And the fiesta had a 4-1 mani with decat 60mm throttlebody full exhaust and pulled 170bhp on the rollers! The fabia was completely standard he did just shy of 200 miles a week btw

Sooo possibly (depending on budget) it might be cheaper for you to run a mk2 fabia vrs than a mk1 if this all makes sence haha

Diesels take an age to warm up in the cold (12 miles at 2-3c), they don't achieve good mpg till everything is up to temp, they're designed to do distance, not short runs. Also you ave a belt/pump to replace every 4 years in your case. That's £360-400 at dealer prices. You do 140 miles a week, that's 10 each way, each day. Don't expect to get decent mpg from a diesel doing this.