Mine seems to be really loosening up now it's over 30K miles.

I'm consistently seeing mid 60s on the OBC and just under 60 from fuelly. This is Glasgow to London at steady 80mph with a little bit of town thrown in. 1.6 manual hatch with DTUK box.

This is Glasgow to London at steady 80mph with a little bit of town thrown in. 1.6 manual hatch with DTUK box.

Wow, that must be one long private road!

Thought I'd give a little update as I've had mine 3 weeks now and covered around 300 miles (will get some pics on here too at some point). Without much effort I've comfortably achieved mid to high 60s, which I think is pretty decent for a new engine. I just got 68mpg on a trip from Southend to South East London, and gave eco mode a go when cruising, it most of my drive time so far has been in normal mode. Will update this thread as it loosens up and gets better.

@Readline Greenline ii - Thank you.

 

I am too enjoying my new Octy.  Car information system was displaying 70 mpg for long trips (London to Sheffield).  But mileage falls below 60 mpg for urban drives, as you mentioned I too think engine needs to loosen a bit.  Good experience so far. I like the message that appears on screen - 'remember to collect your mobile phone' which I often forget to do so, good reminder would say. Snow scraper is also very handy.

 

But one thing, moisture does condense and settle on glass more often. I am planning to a buy demister.

The Greenline version does benefit from a six speed gear box which has to help more than a little with the 1.6 TD engine and it also has a slightly higher power output than the standard versions too, again that might make a difference if you are

not having to change gear so much to get anywhere, with presumably different gear ratios to the standard cars too? My own car is very easy to drive but the gear ratios are ridiculous, 4th gear at 30mph on the flat gives around 1100 revs and no torque whatsoever,

there is no real usable power available until you get over 1500 revs which means having to change down to 3rd gear to get up gentle inclines in and around town without the car sounding very unhappy!

 

 

Some of the quoted mpg figures seem like pie in the sky to me, I've seen the readout say 72/73 mpg when going slowly downhill on a motorway but under summer conditions my car was only averaging 53/54 mpg for mixed driving and circa

60mpg for extra urban driving in fifth gear, driving mainly around 60 mph. Winter fuel consumption has obviously worsened a bit, down to nearer 50 mpg for most mixed driving. Even when the engine is idling and warm, it is recording just over 50 mpg fuel consumption.

I've had 72mpg between Sheffield and Solihull - was outside of rush hour though which helped. VRS TDI manual estate.

Average about 50-55 though, and seems to be slightly worse in the winter.

45MPG is my average, and I don't drive a 'green' Octavia. I could get it up to 60-ish but that would mean 65mph on motorways and driving like an old fart around town (which I do on occasion when I'm tired and/or on the phone).

A little update from me. 900 miles in now and I managed 75mpg on a trip from Somerset to London recently. The car was full, with two adults, a baby, luggage for a weekend away and some heavy suitcases I was transporting for someone else. Not bad, I reckon. That was in normal mode too!

Over the last 12,000 miles, I have averaged 52MPG. That's calculated from brim to brim calculations, but actually in the long term the maxidot is bang on.

 

Not too bad for the TDI VRS I don't think

I'm quite impressed with mine considering I only used to get about 39mpg from my old Mk2 TDI 140 PD

 

Driving style will affect your mpg way more than you think !!!

Driving style will affect your mpg way more than you think !!!

Very true. I drive like someone 40 years older than me. Does wonders for my mpg!

A friend at work opted for a Mk7 Golf Bluemotion company car and he said he on one occasion v nearly eeked 100mpg out of it on a run.

He says it easily averages 75mpg, and often in the 80's on a run. Gets 700+ miles out of the piddly fuel tank too so quite believe his estimates!

If they did a Bluemotion Match again as they did with the Mk5 I'd definitely consider one as a company motor.

Hmmm... Fuel is getting cheaper and in my household its paid for from the joint account, with the wife earning twice as much as me, I no longer get mad at some of the things she says, I just even with the biiiiiiiig smile pedal.

Been reading through this thread and find some of the mpg figures quoted startling. Mine is approaching 10k miles and long term average always sits around the 40-42 mpg mark. Admittedly we do alot of urban driving but the most I've ever got out the thing was 60 mpg on a 170 mile trip to Cornwall driving like the proverbial nun.

I had a pretty successful trip earlier so thought I'd update this thread. I managed 82.4mpg earlier on a mixed road trip from Wellington, Somerset, to south East London. This is the best I've had yet and I think the mpg is getting better as the engine loosens up. I'm still under 3k miles so I expect it could get even better.

For today's trip we had two adults and a toddler in the car, and a full boot after a weekend away. I filled up just as we left so had about 3/4 full tank to start with, adding a bit more weight. When we stopped at Reading we'd averaged 83.1mpg and I'm impressed that it didn't tail off too much over the 2nd leg, which took in more A roads with a fair bit of stopping and starting.

Suffice to say I'm really impressed with this car! Have any other Greenline drivers out there got similar experiences?

That is exceptional! Be prepared for some hate mail.

Can I recommend checking the accuracy of your speedo and odometer with a GPS and recording your fueling into a spreadsheet or open a'Fuelly' account to verify your trip readings.

Apart from the speedo they are usually fairly accurate but always worth checking when you are getting better than the official figures.

Otherwise it sounds like you have a keeper.

I seem to average around 65mpg on a mix of rural/dual carriageway and light urban. The maxidot seems to be pretty accurate - I have checked several tankfuls by brimming it. On a light long run I can get 75mpg though careful light footedness. Since getting the car 10 weeks ago I have covered over 6K and the economy seems fairly consistent.

Rob

Can I recommend checking the accuracy of your speedo and odometer with a GPS and recording your fueling into a spreadsheet or open a'Fuelly' account to verify your trip readings.

Apart from the speedo they are usually fairly accurate but always worth checking when you are getting better than the official figures..

Haven't done that with this car but did so with my Fabia and found it to be accurate. I'm still a few off the list figure yet so won't start freaking out just yet!

Only on the first couple of days and 120 miles, just off 60mpg on a combination of urban, A and B roads plus about 50% motorway (not sparing it up some decent hills and cruising at the legal maximum not really 5-10% percent over honest guv). That's exceeded my expectations given how I drive (not flogging it by any means but not totally angelic either) and a brand new engine. Cruise control helps. Seems to have more than enough kick if I need it. Start / stop is very impressive.

I realise the instant fuel calculation might be a little misleading, but particularly impressed with the 6th gear on the motorway. On the flat it seems to be reporting in the 80s when doing 70. In all, hoping to average just over 60 in time on the routine stuff, maybe quite a bit more on any long clear motorway runs but less if just doing short hops around the town. Given I was getting not much more than 30 in the previous Focus Estate, that's great. I do think the positive feedback on the display helps, the mpg figures and gear change reminders help you game your Eco-driving.

I would be interested to hear what aerodynamic differences there are (if any) compared to a normal Octavia, especially under the car?

We do not get the 1.6D or Greenline models here in Australia so you cannot just go up to the dealers and have a look.

I would be interested to hear what aerodynamic differences there are (if any) compared to a normal Octavia, especially under the car?

We do not get the 1.6D or Greenline models here in Australia so you cannot just go up to the dealers and have a look.

Regular 1.6 TDI 105 is very little different from the 2.0 150...other than obvious engine difference and 5 speed gearbox opposed to 6 speed.

The Greenline is subtly different to the regular 1.6....its engine gets 110ps (so 5 more than regular 1.6) and it also gets a 6 speed box.....I expect the ratios are much like the regular 5 speed but with an ultra tall 6th for cruising. Performance wise there is little difference between the two.

In order to reduce drag I believe the Greenline gets special upper and lower grilles (mostly blocked off), has sports suspension (so 15mm lower than regular car), 16" alloys with low rolling resistance eco rubber and both hatch and estate get a small boot spoiler which I guess must help a little with drag. I believe the Greenline hatch also does without a rear wiper.

It is basically a Golf 7 Bluemotion in drag.

A no brainer in the UK as a company car choice as it has a similar list price to the regular SE TDI but a lower BIK value and will probably cost a bit less to run in general..but a private buyer is probably still better off with the regular 1.6 TDI SE.

Still that said the 2.0 TDI is still relatively low emissions and (whilst Ive got nothing near it) capable of 67mpg but gives considerably stronger mid range performance. If you want a frugal Octavia that still punts along at a fairly indecent rate when you want it to (and will still prove frugal in those conditiona) I still think the 2.0 TDI 150 is about the sweet spot of the range.

Hello,

Just joined the forum. Purchased our Greenline III hatchback in Sep 2014 and its approaching its first 10k service.

Long term fuel economy comes out around 57mpg but my wife drives it for the most part on an A road commute with quite heavy traffic. Whenever I drive it I get low to mid 60s. I think my best on a long run was 73mpg but I was really milking it.

I tend to drive quite quickly in that I try to anticipate at junctions etc and avoid slowing down too much. I will crusie on motorways around 75-80mph and that returns 65mpg (up to 70mpg if just me in the car) providing I concentrate on slowing down on uphills and gradually accelerating on the downhills.

Still a fair way off the advertised figures but here is an interesting albeit brief article I've found:

https://recombu.com/cars/article/the-ten-most-and-least-fuel-efficient-cars-revealed

Has anyone spoken to their dealer about the mismatch between quoted figures and reality and got anywhere?!

On a related note I assume it has a 50litre tank? We refuel it when the light comes on and it tends to take 41litres or so. How far have people run it past the 0 miles remaining point?! I'm not brave enough to go too far beyond that (I've managed 5-10 maybe) but I was wondering what I could actually get out of a tank at say 62mpg.

Cheers all. Very interesting to read all your comments.

Simon.

It's funny isn't it - is be really happy with your figures, Simon, it's all about expectation I guess. I did a lot of reading up here and elsewhere before I decided to buy, and quickly realised that the quoted mpg figures weren't achievable in the real world. I don't think it's underhand though, it's just how the tests are - the figures are always unrealistic it seems to me.

I'm already up to 62-63 and driving just how I want, plenty of zip, aircon etc and am constantly amazed - it's a family estate car 200 miles old! That's not far off double our previous car and it's waaaaay nicer too. Chuffed.

There's been lots of comments on the tank - there's 7 litres of reserve I think, so it's absurdly conservative. Still, it was quoting 550 mile range when I filled it (same as you, 41 litres) which is over 200 miles more than the old car with about 1/5 less fuel.

In order to reduce drag I believe the Greenline gets special upper and lower grilles (mostly blocked off), has sports suspension (so 15mm lower than regular car), 16" alloys with low rolling resistance eco rubber and both hatch and estate get a small boot spoiler which I guess must help a little with drag. I believe the Greenline hatch also does without a rear wiper.

It is basically a Golf 7 Bluemotion in drag.

Thanks, my question is purely for my own interest. You can see I have a 1.4tsi combi so the diesel tuning tweeks are not really relevant to my question.

When I look underneath there is a rather large void (under the rear seat) where I presume the multi-link suspension and rear axle would normally live on those models.

I presume the Greenline also has the torsion bar rear as on mine so I was curious if they had some sort of fairing over the void to reduce turbulence?

I will have a look at Greenline pictures for the boot spoiler you mention, and the 16 inch tyres would have slightly lower rolling resistance, aero drag and weight. Lowering the suspension would be too expensive and I don't think I could live without my rear windscreen wiper.

With the relatively low price of fuel here in Australia, and the fact there is little or no incentive to buy an economical vehicle other than a reduced Luxury car tax for those with less than 7l/100 stickers. So you end up with the rather interesting situation here that most of the diesels on cars are expensive BMW or Mercedes. Large 4WD are also popular diesel choices because the petrol versions consumption is usually excessive specially if towing as well.

I think I read that small diesel vehicles sales have dropped by nearly 40% over the previous year.

I reckon that if I sacrifice 5kph off my average speed (relative to Aussie speed limits) then I could make the magic 1000km out of the 50 litre tank.

900 km was achieved without much effort in the right conditions.

Huzzah - hit a giddy 71.9 today at the end of a 50 mile trip, mostly motorway at just over 70, with a bit of 60mph for heavy traffic and easing off a tad on a couple of big hills - just me in the car but a full tank.  Over the previous fuel tank it averaged exactly 60, and that includes the wife's trips (who takes most unkindly to the car's gearing suggestions) and around-town chores.  While the Amundsen provided plenty of irritations (hate the volume limiting; the satnav is pretty hopeless etc), the car itself is doing the business.