As you can see:

40 never felt sooooooo good!

The 2 main reasons I swapped my 6MPS to the vRS were practicality, so we all know how good the boot and folding seats are but wow I'm regularly seeing high thirties and low fourties in my 'petrol' vRS! It's been remapped to 251bhp too so I've got best of both worlds Awesome!

Oh and that's a good mix of 50's and 60's, bit of town stop/start and some 30's. What a great great car

Oh and I'm aged 29 by the way haha

It's good to be back in a Skoda (.....so far!)

43.4 is my current record on my 16 miles commute which is on similar roads (50-60 bit of 30).

43.4 is my current record on my 16 miles commute which is on similar roads (50-60 bit of 30).

That's great

In honesty I think if I really concentrated and was real steady I could achieve that too, it's just I looked down today whilst stuck behind a lorry and was shocked to see the mpg!

Coming from the MPS which was low twenties (ridiculous) which wasn't even better than the vRS, it's so satisfying! I mean yer if you give it some beans then it'll be in the twenties but it's nice to switch between the two whereas the MPS was just a constant terrible miserable affair!

It's great not having to visit the petrol station every few days

Recently put on Goodyear Efficient Performance tyres and I'm getting about 3mpg more. I just did it for road noise and was quite surprised at the sudden jump in mpg.

 

41 was the top before them.

 

For a 200hp engine it's really very efficient. I used to get 38mpg in a 1.6 Vauxhall astra (100hp) on the same roads

Edited 20 September, 201312 yr by Aspman

intetesting thread. it sort of supports my (non scientific) theory on why the eco cars rarely get near their claimed official figures. it's all about wasting fuel during acceleration IMO. see, if you boot your tsi you accelerate quickly and get to the speed you want then back off. the ecos by comparison take much longer so are wasting more fuel on a pro rata basis, especially when they are warming up.

I went from Worcestershire to Aberystwth today to drop my son off for Uni. full car on the way there and just me on the way back. just over 200 miles ave 54.1 mpg which was impressive to a tighty like me!

43.4 is my current record on my 16 miles commute which is on similar roads (50-60 bit of 30).

 

Were you gently tapping the gas pedal

Admittedly it was a slow run but not that bad, might have had the wind behind me or something.

 

Been getting 41 quite regularly.

 

Turbo isn't getting much wear.

If im honest i get around 38 to 40.....also my tyre pressure has helped.....35psi on all at the moment....

I've also managed low 40's a few times with careful boring driving although on one Summer's day was rocking 47.1 on the cars readout (maybe car was having an off day) never reached it since

Woo7dy - have you checked how accurate the displayed mpg is in your car? It's pretty much gauranteed to be overestimating mpg, the question is by how much...

 

it sort of supports my (non scientific) theory on why the eco cars rarely get near their claimed official figures. it's all about wasting fuel during acceleration IMO. see, if you boot your tsi you accelerate quickly and get to the speed you want then back off. the ecos by comparison take much longer so are wasting more fuel on a pro rata basis, especially when they are warming up.

Fast (high load) acceleration is most efficient provided it is over an appropriate rev. range. This is because if operates the engine at maximum efficiency (maximum energy generated by unit amount of fuel). Brake Specific Fuel Consumption (BSFC) maps for all engines show this, e.g.

 

http://ecomodder.com/wiki/index.php/Brake_Specific_Fuel_Consumption_%28BSFC%29_Maps#Volkswagen_Jetta_TDI_1.9L_ALH_1999.5-2003

 

'Eco' drivers that know what they are doing therefore accelerate briskly, not slowly. The trick is to not accelerate unnecessarily. Flooring it to then brake hard clearly wastes fuel. The standard advice to accelerate slowly to improve mpg 'works' because it acts to prevent unnecessary acceleration, but learn to read the road ahead better and you can save fuel without your accelerator pedal wondering if you've forgotten what it's for!

 

Extreme 'hypermilers' make use of the higher efficiency of high load acceleration as part of the Pulse and Glide technique.

Edited 21 September, 201312 yr by Ultrasonic