Honest "real-world" mpg predictions for the GTD

[Hawaii-Five-O]

Should have posted this at the same time as the GTI mpg thread.

Official combined mpg for the GTD manual: 67.3 mpg
Official combined mpg for the GTD DSG 3 door: 62.8 mpg
Official combined mpg for the GTD DSG 5 door: 60.1 mpg*

Your "real-world" estimated mpg thoughts please chaps?

* This is such a strange anomaly. Why does the 5 door GTD DSG model have lower mpg when the equivalent GTI DSG is the same for both 3 & 5 door. Very odd indeed???

[mcmaddy]

I'm getting a long term average of 40mpg from a tiguan rline at the minute so if the gtd does 50mpg I'll be over the moon. anything over that to me is a bonus.

[monkeyhanger]

I'm getting 52mpg around the doors right now, typical commute:-

1 mile through North shields doing 30-40mph
straight onto the coast road, straight up to 80mph for 5 miles.
2 miles doing 30-40mph again
2 miles doing 60mph
2 miles doing 30-40mph.

Same commute in winter does about 48mpg.

Given that the official figs for my Scirocco are 53.7mpg, and 67.3mpg, I would expect to achieve at least 60mpg for my commute.

I easily achieve 56mpg on a run from North Shields to Hartlepool (30 miles on pretty much all dual carriageway at 80mph) right now, so in theory I should be able to beat the combined figure for the GTD, once the rings are properly seated (500-1000 miles tops).

[OF1]

My Mini Cooper SD is showing an average of 46.1mpg on the OBC.

Considering it's got 143bhp I'll be happy with anything over this with the GTD which I'm sure it will.

[monkeyhanger]

My Mini Cooper SD is showing an average of 46.1mpg on the OBC.

Considering it's got 143bhp I'll be happy with anything over this with the GTD which I'm sure it will.

Seems a tad low for a car as small as a Mini with 143PS and all of BMWs driving dynamics stuff - I assume it's a detuned 2.0D BMW unit (like the 118D/318D?

My boss's BMW 520D (176PS?) manages about 48mpg around the doors.

I would expect your GTD to easily surpass your Mini SD unless you cane it 100% of the time.

[Snoopy]

I'm getting 52mpg around the doors right now, typical commute:-

1 mile through North shields doing 30-40mph
straight onto the coast road, straight up to 80mph for 5 miles.
2 miles doing 30-40mph again
2 miles doing 60mph
2 miles doing 30-40mph.

Same commute in winter does about 48mpg.

Given that the official figs for my Scirocco are 53.7mpg, and 67.3mpg, I would expect to achieve at least 60mpg for my commute.

I easily achieve 56mpg on a run from North Shields to Hartlepool (30 miles on pretty much all dual carriageway at 80mph) right now, so in theory I should be able to beat the combined figure for the GTD, once the rings are properly seated (500-1000 miles tops).

It will be interesting to see I would guess a little less and not much more than the scirrocco or about the same. What seems to kill the mpg on the tdi is traffic, if you hit a lot of traffic or traffic lights the start stop will increase the mpg quite a bit.
Have they derestricted the coast road now
Im not a huge fan of the winter diesel fuel mixture they change too as it kills my winter cars mpg too.

[monkeyhanger]

GTD 5 door DSG is a mystery. Not only is the mpg down by 2 on the 5 door compared to the 3 door, but due to a few g/CO2 it puts it into a whole new taxation bracket - £95 tax disc instead of £30. I'm guessing gear ratio differences - surely the addition of 2 more doors doesn't add so much weight that they need to change a few cogs on the DSG box to attain the same performance figs as the 3 door? Asked VW UK this very question ages ago and they couldn't come up with an answer.