No smelly hands, turbine smooth up to 6k and 40+ mpg easily sealed petrol for me. Plus remapping the tsi is more hilarious for when the warranty expires.

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40+ mpg? I think that's a bit optimistic unless your'e on a run? 6 miles to and from work with a fair bit of stop start and looking like 25 - 27mpg (this is with a DSG though   )

I have seen 40 plus on the DIS on a MWay run - but Fuelly calculates a tank used mainly on a long run to 38.1 MPG, that is in a manual TSi vRS.

Just been on a trip to the lakes in my petrol octy vrs,didnt hang about driving there or back and just got 370 miles to a tank of 99ron and that was loaded up with kids luggage the mrs etc........sorry just dont do diesels;)

I honestly don't know why anyone would prefer a Diesel  .

 

My vRS 2.0TFSI gets about 340-60miles to a tank on Momentum99. Basically I get about 29-33mpg on my commute (40mins mixed NSL roads and traffic). On the motorway, when I rarely use it, it reaches 37-39mpg

The only reason for selecting diesel over petrol is for financial reasons, like like buying beer; makes no real sense but it's a lot of fun.

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40+ mpg? I think that's a bit optimistic unless your'e on a run? 6 miles to and from work with a fair bit of stop start and looking like 25 - 27mpg (this is with a DSG though   )

 

Yep, on a manual I'm seeing around 29-31 on daily 10 mile commute with some stop start and a 3mile 50/NSL dual carriageway bit at the end. Can do better if I try really hard, saw 42 once but that was on a gentle downhill section. Turn off the aircon & it gets a bit better in town.

 

36-38 on a longer run.

I average just over 400miles usually out a tank in my tsi- that's a mix of town and country roads . Steady speed on a motorway will get it upto 480miles (doing 70-75mph). If you drive smoothly you can get good economy and still cover ground quickly. I should probably have bought a diesel though as I've done 24k miles in the last year!

40+ mpg? I think that's a bit optimistic unless your'e on a run? 6 miles to and from work with a fair bit of stop start and looking like 25 - 27mpg (this is with a DSG though   )

 

I posted a pic elsewhere on a similar thread, but I have regularly seen over 40 mpg on a motorway run with the cruise set at 70, and avoiding any red mist WOT moments. Best ever was just over 44mpg from Cardiff to Walsall then to Dunton and back to Cardiff, so you can get a decent economy out of it if you want to. I rarely want to (otherwise I'd have bought a diesel) but long mileage business trips are not done for fun, and I don't want to be out of pocket.

To contrast this, last weekend I took my teenage sons up to my parents from cardiff to shrewsbury along the A49, and overtook anything in front of me just because I could, and ended up at just under 31mpg, bearing in mind that involved plenty of full throttle overtaking, plus a considerable proportion of the journey sat in 3rd / 4th gear waiting for the gap. 

I see it this way, I doubt there are many cars around at this price point that I could have so much fun in for so little fuel, I'm not even sure that a 3.0L BMW diesel power would be as hilarious, certainly not significantly better anyway, and that's another step in purchase cost.

I think all of these are fair comments. I'm just pointing out the difference the type of driving can have. I wouldn't want the OP to go blind into a petrol thinking that a traffic laden commute will still give mid 30mpg and be disappointed with the car. Lets be honest, no one buys a petrol to be frugal and the grins are worth the grimaces at the pump. To end on a happy balance we just did our usual commute but traffic free and even with a little stop start, still got 37-38mpg.

I concur. I didn't buy a petrol to save money. I bought it because I enjoyed driving it and it had space to put all the family stuff in. Regardless of how I drive it I get comparable economy to my previous car: 1.8 petrol Astra Sri which was also fun to drive but not as practical.

I looked into this when buying my fl vrs. I found the diesel's to be more common, higher mileage and dearer to buy but cheaper to fuel. Petrols are dearer on fuel but cheaper to buy. I do 16K to 20K per year and worked out that I'd probably break even over 18 months or so and went for the one I preferred to drive.

 

Hence I now own a 2.0 TSI VRS

Having owned a 2011 petrol Vrs estate for 12 months and then swapping for the CR version in May 2012 I can offer my perspective having used them back to back.

 

Petrol VRS- Purchased new in May 2011 as my divorce present to myself  (****ed ex off and put a massive smile on my face) I had a manual metallic grey estate VRS and at that time I was doing 15k miles per year. Unfortunately my department decided I had done  my time on shift work and I became an instructor and my mileage went through the roof, most of it being M2/A2 with a daily commute of 85-125 miles depending on whether my kids were with me as I did week on week off. The car was run on Vpower only and over the 12 months and 20K miles averaged 36 MPG.

However it is not all about the cost to fill up, it is how a car drives and handles and the petrol car is very quick and, sounds good. It also handles well as the nose is not as heavy.

CR VRS- purchased new May 2012 was a Black estate manual after driving a very good deal. The car did 27k miles in its first 12 months and averaged 48 MPG on Tesco finest diesel. The engine is good for a derv eater and smooth but it is still a diesel. It is quick but not in the same way as the petrol due to different power delivery and torque curves..

 

If I had the choice I would have the petrol.

I had a 1.9PD for four years - the first diesel I'd owned in over 20 years of buying cars.  Loved the economy, (regularly over 50mpg even on short commute), and the torque that was there when we were fully loaded with camping gear.

 

Now gone for a 1.8TSi, largely because I normally do a tiny amount of stop start miles for months on end so the diesel, especially with DPF, didn't make as much sense.  It's definitely fun to drive and still plenty of torque when fully loaded.  2000 mile round trip to France camping was a bit more expensive, (somewhere a touch over mid 30s mpg plus the cost difference in France of petrol over diesel), but it seemed a much more pleasurable and quiet drive although that may just be down to it being a car that is 6 years younger.

For a long time i ran a diesel vauxhall which is in no way comparable to a Skoda but the milieage on a diesel is far beyond a petrol.

Nowadays things have changed alot with petrols.. First of all the economy on a petrol has become far better than 10 years ago and also servicing intervals, even though i stick to 8000 to 10000 mile intervals, have made them more appealing but diesel are still for the longer journey. 

Now there is another issue with diesels that has become more common and that is the dreaded DPF. It's compulsary and needs to be on all diesel cars that are produced today. If you have an old one then you laughing. There are many forums on the tinternet that give you peoples woes and how much they spent to get them replaced or removed. But the point to make about them is that some of these people are doing non long journeys.....

 

I bought a FSI vRS and can say this out right that i do on average about 410 to the tank a little after bong.... I also did a trip across Europe and averaged around 370 in Germany and 410 on the rest of the journey..

My mpg on average is around 38 to 40 and for town driving, about 28 to 31.... I have seen 44mpg but thats was doing light foot driving and not more than 65mph. 

 

Factors like tyres, last service, grade of oil, driving style are all leaders to mpg. Stick your foot down on an autobahn and hit 150mph and you wont see anything above 8mpg. In the end we all have different driving styles. So for this post I will hold my hand hi and say petrol all the way... They are amazing to drive and im glad i returned to driving a petrol. 

Edited 31 August, 201312 yr by MazVrstfsi