I don't yet have my vRS PD170, but I had a Golf PD150 (with Alpin "bung some more fuel in" Tuning Box) and even if I drove around like a complete loon - continually braking and accellerating - I could NOT get it below 30 mpg on a drive.

Mixed with some sane (but not granny) driving it happily averaged 40+ mpg and if you were dedicated would easlily exceed 50 mpg on a motorway journey (I once travelled up the M40 at 75 mph and averaged 78 mpg over more than 20 miles :eek: )

They can be very parsimonious, BUT they only return the brochure mileage once they are fully run in - think 8,000 - 15,000 miles before you see the better economy figures printed in the brochures. In fact "fresh out of the box" economy can be worse than petrol - but within 1k miles it should exceed petrol figures.

As a comparison I had a petrol Golf GTI MkV and I felt sick whenever I took it out for drive - if I was careful it returned low thirties - but my driving regularly resulted in low 20s

Nowhere near the published 45 mpg "lean burn" FSI boasts in the brochure (even with Super Unleaded)

Thanks bahnstormer vrs, excellent information

Anybody else getting similar ?

Petrol vRS; averaging around 31/32mpg, drops through the floor when thrashed but yesterday averaged 35.5mpg on a 270 mile round trip to Ipswich on the A14 with it's multiple fixed cameras, talivans and constantly stuck behind overtaking lorries.

Hence I would concur with Bahnstormer about the 10mpg difference.

Dan

I had a TDI PD170 as a hire and got it to IIRC 50.6mpg on a motorway run keeping at about 65 etc etc.

It isn't bad at all, but doing the same the PD140 as fitted to the elegance and L&K will do more like 60MPG.

I also managed to get the thing down to the low to mid 30's but I was taking advantage of the nice twisty road and keeping it in the lower gears so I was always on the turbo.

HTH

Dan, what year is your car in the pic?

Not that is is unusual for Skoda to hide the actual options available on the Octy - I can find the Ally look roof rails, but I can't find the "Ladders(folding) - Aluminum Look" in the current (2007) options list and my dealer has checked NSR with no success - are they "after-market" perchance?

- Thanks in advance

On a sort of related note (to the actual thread), do they improve the aerodynamics or is it just for the look?

My 2.0 140bhp TDI with DSG has under 1000 miles on the clock but I'm looking at getting about 450 miles per tank at the moment with 80% city driving, 20% open road stuff.

And I know what you mean about the bear growling sound - my wife loves the noise it makes!

My 2.0TDi DSG has averaged 42.7 with 7,500 miles clocked, and I get about 420 miles per tank full.

After driving someone else's 1.9 I'm happy to have less mileage to the pound.

My 1.9 diesel Octy II has averaged 56.3mpg for the first 10000 miles. Then the computer reset itself mysteriously; I subsequently found out that it only holds data for 10000 miles. I am now at 11500 miles with the thing showing 53.5 mpg overall.