Just checked the quoted fuel consumption figures of my 2010 Octavia vRS CR Estate in the brochure (April 2010) compared to what is quoted on the VCA website and there's a difference - anyone know why that would be?

 

Brochure: Urban - 36.7, Extra Urban - 61.4, Combined - 49.6

VCA site:  Urban - 35.8, Extra Urban - 58.9, Combined - 47.9

If it is in the Public Library it would be in the 'Fiction' section.

 

One example is Fabia MK2 vRS Estates & Hatches, which had a official Kerb Weight from 2010- 2013, and then they (Skoda /VWG)

Corrected the Estates Unladen Weight to 70 KG more than the Hatch, (After all it is 9 3/4 longer and actually really Heavier, Metal, Glass & Plastic.)

not 5 KG less as all the Figures Showed, and salesmen and Motoring Journalists told us for 3 years.)

 

then shortly after Skoda issue new weights for the Hatch making it 5 kg heavier again than the Hatch.

Polo GTI & Seat Ibiza Kerb Weights were also wrong and later revised to the correct heavier weights, but they kept the Official low Emissions Figues..

As it is they Weigh a Sample Basic Vehicle off the Production Line, and then never Update Face Lift Models etc, or to the actual weights.

 

the Seat Ibiza Cupra got a New Version of a Greener Engine in 2013, the same revised engine & management system that was already in the Fabia from 4 months  earlier, 

Seat issued new lower Emission Figures and it dropped a VED class, Skoda did not bother to with the same CTHE engine.

 

http://skoda.co.uk/fuel-consumption-statement

 

Amendments in 2013 to the Regulations from the ones from 2001 amended in 2004.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/vca/fcb

Edited 9 August, 201411 yr by goneoffSKi

It wasn't so much the quoted figures as rather than why there's a difference.

 

I would have thought that the manufacturer supplies figures to the VCA when a vehicle goes onto the market, but maybe that's not what happens.