MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[mike_f]

Hi guys,

I am new to this forum - don't have my GTD yet but told start of Oct (initially it was mid July!!)

Had the same hassle with the dealer most of you seem to have had. Not impressed but decided to ride it out.

Anyway - now that some GTDs are actually being delivered I was wondering what the real life MPG figures on it are like.

I decided on the GTD to get rid of my S3 which is terrible on the fuel and with VW boasting some very impressive figures for the GTD I thought it would be a serious machine.

However, reading a bit online about the new Mk7 diesels in general they appear to be returning nothing like the claim stated by VW and causing me a bit of concern.

I understand you will never get what the book says but just wondering what people are getting cruising the motorways at 75mph with cruise on.

[Bill_the_Bear]

Welcome Mike,

If this is GTD only maybe use the TDI section?
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?board=128.0

Have you checked these similar threads out?
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=256022.0
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=256913.0

[p3asa]

I understand you will never get what the book says but just wondering what people are getting cruising the motorways at 75mph with cruise on.

Was the adaptive cruise on not one of the reasons why people think it has failed to reach its desired MPG? i.e. cars coming in on front of the Golf so making that having to alter its speed quite a lot? Just a thought!

Also I've found I can achieve a lot more MPG with cruise off simply by reading the road ahead. Things like going downhill I can feel the car slowing itself down to keep to the desired speed.

[mike_f]

Yeah - I agree regarding cruise but I regularly do a stretch of road that I can sit at 70mph on and not have to slow down for much. Hopefully the adaptive part of the cruise can be turned off and just used at constant speed.

If I can get 50mpg on the motorway out the GTD I'd be satisfied, 60mpg I'd be over the moon - anything less than that I'll be pretty annoyed..

Will be interesting to see.

[monkeyhanger]

Yeah - I agree regarding cruise but I regularly do a stretch of road that I can sit at 70mph on and not have to slow down for much. Hopefully the adaptive part of the cruise can be turned off and just used at constant speed.

If I can get 50mpg on the motorway out the GTD I'd be satisfied, 60mpg I'd be over the moon - anything less than that I'll be pretty annoyed..

Will be interesting to see.

I got 50mpg on a GTD DSG (extended test drive of demo) doing a 62 mile round trip with about 12 miles around the doors and 50 miles of it sitting at 80mph on dual carriageway. The car had less than 900 miles on the clock (so some running in gains yet to be realised) and the DSG will hit you for 10% on your mpg vs manual so expect at least 55mpg with the manual. I had ADC switched off and no aircon on that trip, ambient temp about 20C. About 8 times on the trip cars overtaking lorries slowed progress down to 60mph, but as soon as they were out of the way I buried the accelerator until I hit 80mph again and stayed there. I think it will meet your expectations. I didn't have cruise on - not sure how much fuel penalty you will incur for that - maybe a fair bit if you try to drive closer to the car in front than ADC would like and it is braking for you regularly.

[Bill_the_Bear]

DSG will hit you for 10% on your mpg vs manual

Official figures say 6% difference.

[RedHP]

Yeah - I agree regarding cruise but I regularly do a stretch of road that I can sit at 70mph on and not have to slow down for much. Hopefully the adaptive part of the cruise can be turned off and just used at constant speed.

If I can get 50mpg on the motorway out the GTD I'd be satisfied, 60mpg I'd be over the moon - anything less than that I'll be pretty annoyed..

Will be interesting to see.

Mate, I opted for C/C on my Mk GiT but wished I hadn't. For me, C/C is not fuel-efficient..........and I have tested this many times over the past 3 years. I get better efficiency in manual mode, so in my opinion disregard any brochure details for fuel under C/C etc !
Hope this helps

Red

[monkeyhanger]

DSG will hit you for 10% on your mpg vs manual

Official figures say 6% difference.

Depends how many doors: GTD 60.1mpg vs 67.3mpg (5 door comparison) DSG does 90.5% of manual (combined), 3 door comparison is a bit closer (93.3%) because 5 door manual does not appear to have the fuel penalty vs 3 door that DSG has. 

[Bill_the_Bear]

I guess I'm talking GTI figures in a GTD thread again.  My bad.

[monkeyhanger]

I guess I'm talking GTI figures in a GTD thread again.  My bad.

GTI figs (3 or 5 door) come in almost the same as 3 door GTD comparison - 93.6%.

Why is the 5 door DSG GTD such an anomaly? Weight of 5 doors (30kg) and DSG (17kg) combined take it over some threshold that requires it to be geared lower to maintain same performance as 3 door?