GTD Fuel economy

[Optimus prime]

I find the handling to be excellent just like being on rails, no problems whatsoever even at speed.  I was unaware the Police has gone for the xdrive option?  Certainly not seen any in use yet in Essex, same goes for 335d most Police cars seem to be 330d.  I can understand the additional training if you have been trained to handle RWD at speed etc as the characteristic are very different.  The grip stays constant where with RWD at speed there is a point where it will try and let go.  Personally very happy having had 535d's in the past this is certainly a good step up from a handling point & over 40mpg is a bonus.

[fredgroves]

46mpg isn't particularly good for a GTD over a 300 mile trip in the summer.

I'd have expect well over 50 if you were on the motorway for most of that.

Is the BMW your own car or a company one?

[C2K]

46mpg isn't particularly good for a GTD over a 300 mile trip in the summer.

I'd have expect well over 50 if you were on the motorway for most of that.

Is the BMW your own car or a company one?

Probably dsg,  but huge amount of variables.  I'd expect mine to do 58 plus doing 300 miles now.

[monkeyhanger]

46mpg isn't particularly good for a GTD over a 300 mile trip in the summer.

I'd have expect well over 50 if you were on the motorway for most of that.

Is the BMW your own car or a company one?

46mpg on a 300 mile trip in the Summer is absolutely sh!te unless maintaining 95mph the whole way. My GTD (Manual) achieved 58mpg average from Newcastle to Leeds and back (208 miles) in the height of Summer, with the aircon on 17C (ambient temp was about 26C) maintaining 80-85mph (with the exception of about 15 miles of 50mph road covered by SPECs camera, religiously doing 50mph), with a passenger.

[Optimus prime]

Dsg running in normal mode steady 80/85.  It never returned over 50mpg during my whole ownership.

[davewilliams000]

46mpg isn't particularly good for a GTD over a 300 mile trip in the summer.

I'd have expect well over 50 if you were on the motorway for most of that.

Is the BMW your own car or a company one?

46mpg on a 300 mile trip in the Summer is absolutely sh!te unless maintaining 95mph the whole way. My GTD (Manual) achieved 58mpg average from Newcastle to Leeds and back (208 miles) in the height of Summer, with the aircon on 17C (ambient temp was about 26C) maintaining 80-85mph (with the exception of about 15 miles of 50mph road covered by SPECs camera, religiously doing 50mph), with a passenger.

Depends if there's a lot of hills on the motorway. Newcastle to leeds pretty flat if I remember correctly. Still I would still expect to get over 50mpg. I got somewhere between 50 and 55 on my holiday to north wales (from lanarkshire) which included a detour via sheffield on the way back to see family.

[C2K]

Dsg explains a lot as they do seem to have a noticeablempg penalty,  but astonished to think it can't break 50 on a run like that. :|

[mcmaddy]

Sootchuckers dsg gtd seems to be getting excellent mpg's so I don't think you can really blame the dsg box. Tyres maybe?

[AntGTD]

My daily commute is 25 miles each way, 80% of which is at motorway speed My average since picking up the car 3 months at with 17 miles on the clock is 46MPG. Since picking it up i done several long trips, one of which was to the lake district which is a 500 mile round trip. On that journey i averaged 50MPG.

[monkeyhanger]

Sootchuckers dsg gtd seems to be getting excellent mpg's so I don't think you can really blame the dsg box. Tyres maybe?

But Sootchucker does seem to try very hard for fuel economy and rarely exceeds 70mph, going by his posts. I believe running in goes a long way for both fuel economy and oil consumption. Baby it when running in or run in on motorway miles and the car will have a thirst for oil and fuel, be a bit mean (once hot) and vary the revs with shortish journeys and your car will thank you for it. Ran one of my 7 TDIs in on motorway miles and it used a lot of oil and was low on power and  mpg.