Agree that if you want best fuel economy, drive like a grandad and in a high gear.

But on the occasions when I want economy, that's exactly what I do anyway, and I get excellent economy.  I don't need a machine to tell me the obvious!

Some people like it and find it useful - great.  Good luck to them; I'm not suggesting getting rid of it.  Just being able to switch it off if you find it a waste of time and an insult to your intelligence.

An instantaneous fuel consumption gauge is far more useful as an aid to fuel saving - you soon see and learn what driving activities affect fuel consumption, good or bad.  And you can switch it off if you don't want or need it or find it distrcting.

My character of the car encourages me to drive it in a relaxed fashion. That isn't necessarily driving it like a grandad - nowhere to go and all day to get there - I generally drive on the motorway at around 75 mph; always stick to limits in built up (20 or 30mph) zones. I don't tend to drive with a queue behind me either! My 400 bhp 911 I tend to drive a lot more enthusiastically - so horses for courses. But that doesn't do 60 mpg - less then half that!

 

But the gearchange indicator doesn't bother, irritate or distract me at all. It's no different to what BMW's have had for some years, except the "change down" recommendation is a lot more realistic

Interesting on the last paragraph, first time I've seen that mentioned "if the accelerator pedal is only depressed slowly, an economic driving programme is automatically selected".

 

Does that mean if you're for example in sport or normal mode, and you have a light touch on the pedal, it will change to eco?

ive noticed on mine if in sport and youre not far down on the throttle it will change up earlier

This gear recommendation thing changes with the way you drive. If you floor it and go into high revs it will recommend later gear change and vice versa. That's how I see it and if you take a look at this video you'll see that gear recommendations can come up as late as 5800 revs (1.4 TSI petrol engine). 

This gear recommendation thing changes with the way you drive. If you floor it and go into high revs it will recommend later gear change and vice versa. That's how I see it and if you take a look at this video you'll see that gear recommendations can come up as late as 5800 revs (1.4 TSI petrol engine). 

i wish our dashpods were as uncluttered as the euro with just the km/hr :(

Why is it really that UK still partially uses imperial system? I know that 'metrication' is going on for decades and even though the industry is using it for a while you can still see imperial system being used by majority in everyday life. Probably just old habits die hard?

Trying to re-educate the population would be a nightmare.

 

Benefit vs cost.  

 

Benefit?  Nothing (apart from theoretical harmonisation)

Cost?  Huge

 

No brainer - we stay as we are.  We might be "in" Europe, but we do keep being referred to as the 51s state of the USA...although their gallon is a different size to ours.  Thats also why we don't use the Euro (or dollar for that matter).

Not only would you have to change to km/hr, you'd need to change all the road signs and anything relating to speeds or distances. Rather a large change to clean up your dashpod, and going against 120 years of motoring in this country.

 

Converting is good for the part of the brain that deals with mental arithmetic I guess. 

 

Also, perhaps the worst case of mixed measures I can think of is tyre sizes... "185/65 R14" as per my car gives us "Metric/Metric Imperial" in one hit!

by the way i meant our dashpod should just show mph to make it cleaner

 

my mkii octy did mph only and put the kph as a digital readout, i assume to cover some euro law.