Well fill my cavity!! NO WAY! IMPOSSIBLE!!

[R32UK]

Don't R32ists have a forum of their own?  They are not GTI's are they?

If they are not GTI's then it's fine for we GTI'ers to poke fun at them in our own forum, shirley.

I think the word you were trying to say was 'surely'. And no. and no again to your questions egbert/sharpie.

[Egbutt Wash]

Surely you can't be serious

[topher]

R32/GTI banter appreciated and encouraged, but don't call me Shirley.

[JC]

R32/GTI banter appreciated and encouraged, but don't call me Shirley.

Ok, Tophetta 

[Mew]

Sigh . . .

That type of comment by Phil Mcavity is just one of the reasons why I often can't be arsed to post on this forum! 

As usual, Phil repeatedly posts utter, UTTER bollox.  Not to mention how he repeatedly contradicts his own posts.  I'm sorry to say it, but I really think that Phil is basically abusing his position of trust (of being a moderator) by posting such polarised, unsubstantiated, and simply un-true rubbish.  And when anyone else tries to disagree with him, he gets all arsey, or even deletes the thread.

 

[Hurdy]

Add to that the majority of the driving is done at less than 4000rpm, where the turbo boys are just into their power band.. well it's a rather efficient old lump.

Maybe the K04 boys, but the K03 in the standard GTI starts its power band from 1750rpm. 

Come on now Sean, you must have known when you posted that comment I wouldn't let you get away with it

KO4 is starting its power band from 2200rpm (unmodified) and by 4k revs has already passed its peak torque pulling figure.

[WhiteGTI]

R32uk's car is the only R that returns more then the VW handbook specifys. From a cold start , and 8 mile journey, theres NO WAY your car will accurately return that figure, especially from cold as it runs a third richer and would use more then on a long run giving then a good mpg reading on the mfd.
From Brim to Brim  that  is the only way to correctly work out whether your R32 is giving you that figure.At 36mpg, thats 432 mile range!. IMPOSSIBLE!!

A 2.0lt TFSi cannot return that figure even driven with kid gloves, and your saying a V6 is more efficient!!

Without meaning to get too involved in this, I can easily get 36mpg if i drive sensibly. And I've seen 400miles out of 1 tank. (okok, so it only happened once but it shows that it's achievable!)

[Hurdy]

It's all getting a bit serious over whether a car can do 36mpg or not isn't it

If it can great, if it can't tough. Either way there is no reason to fall out about it and start attacking each other!!

Thread locked as I can't see the point of this becoming a sensible conversation.

One last point though....my long term fuel consumption is only just over 20mpg....but I'm still happy