Just started a new job which will mean a 30 mile trip each way to work. Mix of motorway and A roads. Would love the practicality of a yeti but wondering how it will fare MPG wise to a golf GTD. Just aware the Yeti is rather brick like and i don't want to be spending a fortune on fuel, but still want some fun !

Thoughts gladly recieved

Oli

Which Yeti are you thinking of getting? I have a 170 tdi, it gets well used and I don't do "steady" the average MPG is around 42-44 on a mixed run.

Head wind and 75-80mph, this drops to high 30's but, a tail wind and 70 mph I have achieved 50+ so if you are disciplined I am sure you will get good economy.

I am fairly certain that my 170 Yeti would do about 46 to 48 mpg on a 30 mile mix as you describe. Done exactly that sort of journey today and my optimistic maxidot registered 51mpg

I've spent a year commuting into London in my Yeti 170 CR 4X4 and it's averaged 47mpg.

40 mile trip each way.

Just started a new job which will mean a 30 mile trip each way to work. Mix of motorway and A roads. Would love the practicality of a yeti but wondering how it will fare MPG wise to a golf GTD. Just aware the Yeti is rather brick like and i don't want to be spending a fortune on fuel, but still want some fun !

Thoughts gladly recieved

Oli

If you want good mpg stick with the golf as we had a gt tdi golf before and that use to get better mpg than we get in our yeti which is a greenline model which is suppose to get decent mpg but not as good as the golf will with lower stance and better aerodynamics.

Anybody who says they get 50+ mpg on a 170 yeti is talking out there arse or drives like a miss daisy on a Sunday drive behind a milkfloat.

Edited 30 March, 201313 yr by Yetigreenline2

I would be looking at the 170 yeti. If i could get mid 40's most of the time i think that would be fine. Just concerned that i like to drive 80mph on the motorway and i have heard that anything above 70mph means a massive slump in MPG

Anybody who says they get 50+ mpg on a 170 yeti is talking out there arse or drives like a miss daisy on a Sunday drive behind a milkfloat.

How very polite of you!

Not a 170 but a 140 4x4.

I do a 48 mile cross-country A road commute, normally in just about an hour, and my average fuel consumption over the last 57k miles has been around 46 mpg. If I take out the caravan towing miles it goes to nearer 48mpg.

The 170 has supposedly better fuel consumption than the 140.

Where you will find a difference is when you start driving at more than around 60mph, as due to the aerodynamics of the Yeti, fuel consumption increases from there onwards.

I have an almost identical 50 mile round trip to work each day myself. Currently my Octavia vRS is giving me about 35mpg for it but I've just ordered a Yeti Greenline II.

When it arrives in mid-May I'll post to give some economy figures but from my calculations based on getting 90% of the book listed combined economy figures (as I currently get on the vRS), the yeti should save me nearly £100 PCM on fuel alone.

And that's before the half price insurance & £150 off tax.

Edited 30 March, 201313 yr by wilkenstein

72 miles a day during the working week plus a few holidays inc Europe with four adults and a roof box. OK mines a 110 4x4 but will be pretty close and if you look at my fuelly I’ve recorded every fill bar the first one.

TP

Depends where you live as well as how you drive. Most of the time I drive 'con brio'. Around Norfolk where I now live I get high 40s to low 50s ... steady 70 (honestly officer ) on the motorway maxidot usually reads 48/52. Across France to the Alps - cruise control on - 80mph 46/48. Around the Pennines when I lived up there and commuted over the hills 20 miles each way ... 40/42.

(Maybe the greenline driver has bought the wrong car - sour grapes?)

And the 170 has vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom by the bucketload. I reckon it's at least as quick as the Golf VR6 I used to own a few years back.

Sounds like the yeti could be ok. Whats the 170 like on the motorway cruising around 80. I know you are not supposed to but lets be honest we all do it. Having to check at 70 would just seem too slow.

On the edge of getting thirstier

I can still maintain 40+ on cruise - but if mpg is that critical and motorways constitute a high proportion of your driving, the Yeti is not for you!

Genuine figures - not the Maxidot flatterers

Here is a true representation of a journey to Heathrow from St Helens, I did stay at the speed limits and I did mention in my first post high mpg is available if you take your time, or have discipline, as with all cars, on our fleet we have a 2.0 GT Tdi golf, an A3 1.6 CR Tdi, a Yeti 2.0 TDi (mine) A BMW 520d latest shape and auto, we also have 2 Audi A4's, both 2.0 tdie Of all these cars it is the BMW and the Yeti showing best MPG, this can only be down to the fact that more BHP makes for effortless driving, the A3 is a dreadful drive.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/258149-how-many-miles/

Our figures are based on the monthly report we get from Allstar ( a fuel payment card) we have to declare mileage and they do the comparison against litres used, they then send a graph on usage.

I have a CR170 and do 27-31 miles each way (I have a few routes). Once the last one was run in it did 45-48mpg quite happily, a bit lower if there was a lot of traffic and sitting around. That wasn't babying it either, so I'm confident that 50mpg is achievable with a more relaxed approach. All my routes have a fair few junctions and roundabouts and suchlike - a straight run on the motorway usually gets to 52mpg.

I've only had the new Yeti for two weeks and 400 miles so it's just hitting about 40mpg.

If you want 50mpg, don't get the 170! You can, but getting that kind of figure completely defeats the reason for getting the 170 in the first place.

Andy

Edited 31 March, 201313 yr by AndyC

I recon you will 'lose' about 10-15mpg compared to an equivalent Golf/vRS driven at similar speeds & terrain. The slower you drive the less the difference.

My CR140 DSG is averaging about 15mpg less than my previous PD140 DSG (non DPF) Octavia.

Depends where you live as well as how you drive. Most of the time I drive 'con brio'. Around Norfolk where I now live I get high 40s to low 50s ... steady 70 (honestly officer ) on the motorway maxidot usually reads 48/52. Across France to the Alps - cruise control on - 80mph 46/48. Around the Pennines when I lived up there and commuted over the hills 20 miles each way ... 40/42.

(Maybe the greenline driver has bought the wrong car - sour grapes?)

And the 170 has vrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom by the bucketload. I reckon it's at least as quick as the Golf VR6 I used to own a few years back.

Sour grapes I doubt it and when I want vrroooooooooooommmmmm as you put it ill use the nice selection of bikes at my disposal so when your 170 is stuck behind traffic unable to use its acres of vroooommmm ill be gone in the distance.

Sour grapes I doubt it and when I want vrroooooooooooommmmmm as you put it ill use the nice selection of bikes at my disposal so when your 170 is stuck behind traffic unable to use its acres of vroooommmm ill be gone in the distance.

I'm sure the OP will find this post very helpful! since you drive a greenline, exactly what are your qualifications for commenting on 170 performance?

Anybody who says they get 50+ mpg on a 170 yeti is talking out there arse or drives like a miss daisy on a Sunday drive behind a milkfloat.

My average mpg as measured and calculated over 16000 miles is 42 mpg. Plenty of short runs in there. No idea what my accent sounds like from my arse (could guess !!) and I do vroom past milk floats and drive other than on Sundays. If all my journeys were like those described by op as 30 miles of mixed MW and A roads then I would have no problem achieving 50mpg in my 170. I occasionally do just that with maxidot showing well above 50mpg on those occasions. I could drive with unnecessary vigour and get much less than that.

I recon you will 'lose' about 10-15mpg compared to an equivalent Golf/vRS driven at similar speeds & terrain. The slower you drive the less the difference.

My CR140 DSG is averaging about 15mpg less than my previous PD140 DSG (non DPF) Octavia.

I'm surprised with you Mike, for the benefit of the OP, I thought you did better than that with less of a differential.

I have a mixed Motorway / A road / urban commute of 25 miles each way, driven briskly and as the OP intends on the M'way.

In my Octavis vRS TDI (PD) I'd get 40 - 42mpg overall; in my Yeti CR 140 DSG (mapped to CR180) I get 36 - 38mpg; about a 4-5mpg penalty which for the brick like aero of the Yeti I feel is reasonable.

olibluegoat - There must be other reasons that you are looking at a Yeti; is mpg your overriding consideration?

Guy

I'm surprised with you Mike, for the benefit of the OP, I thought you did better than that with less of a differential.

No not really. My Octavia with the DSG PD140 averaged around 50mpg. My Yeti is averaging about 37mpg.

Mike

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I get about 42 to 46 mpg.....mixture of country lanes and main roads...

JeZ

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Nope. MPG isnt the only consideration. I need a practical family car that also isn't huge. Currently have a passat and just find it drives like a barge. Also want a bit of fun. So the yeti with the removable seat seemed like a good plan. Drove the 170 the other day and it felt really nice

I occasionally do just that with maxidot showing well above 50mpg on those occasions.

And there lies the issue. Maxidot is often not as accurate as you may hope for.

My car tells me I'm regularly averaging 46mpg. The reality is its closer to 38mpg (calculated manually).

My Maxidot over reads about 12%

Andy