88mpg

[thai-wronghorse]

Especially if its gutless and its necessary to rag the life out of it constantly.

[Bellend]

The MK6 Bluemotion was supposed to have something like 80 MPG figures. In real life it's about 59-60. My MK4 SDi is far better. Only trouble with the SDI being you get bored and rag it all the time.

[T_J_G]

I get 55-60MPG in my TDI 130 would love 88MPG!

[RedHP]

Nope not 88mph and back to the future but 88mpg from the new Golf mk7 Bluemotion thing. Now I know these aren't exactly 'real world' figures but pretty mental nonetheless:

"combined fuel consumption of 88.3 mpg on the combined cycle and CO2 emissions of just 85 g/km"

"With its 50-litre fuel tank and 88.3 mpg fuel consumption, the new Golf BlueMotion has a theoretical range of 970 miles.  Assuming an average annual driving distance of 15,000 km (approx. 9,300 miles), most drivers will only have to refuel 10 times a year."

Its better than walking !

[ajmoir36]

I think this is interesting as I am contemplating chopping in the mk6 GTD (3 year old 52K and rising on the clock) for an economy beast I do around 20K a year.  I get around 50-55 all the time, I can get low 60s in the summer and I have had 72mpg when driving like a granny in the summer.

I had a mk6 Bluemotion and on a trip of 100 miles got an average of 72mpg. On the way back I ragged it within a inch of its life and got 58mpg I think thats good, its no sloutch either.

So the mk7 88.3mpg I am sure thats possible.

What I have been looking at though is the Polo bluemotion 1.2 TDI CR claims a 91 mpg and the skoda fabia version greenline 2 is 94mpg top end. The quesion is will it really achieve 88mpg all the time? If so the running costs will decrease for me alot and obvious the benefit of no road tax. Also I believe I can change to a brand new skoda fabia for no cost!!! so instant gains.

But I will miss the performance...well at least until I buy a second fun car. mk5 GTI, mk5 ED30, mk5 R32 or leave it a year and get a mk6 GTI.