MK7 GTD - Real Life MPG

[monkeyhanger]

Personal best is 572. Still aiming for 600.

Unless you're pressing into the "reserve" (that unknown amount below an indicated 0 miles), you're rarely going to get more than 10x your mpg rating e.g. 55mpg average = 550 miles. Te car will do a little more, but there's always that worry about running out.

572 miles is pretty impressive if you're not sitting at 60mph on a long motorway run. The best i've done on a constant 80mph in the middle of Summer and with the aircon on all the way is 57mpg between Newcastle and Leeds (105 miles), generally it;s 42mpg around the doors in Winter and 48mpg around the doors in Summer.

[AlanH]

572 was with the fuel warning light on, and only a couple of miles to filling up again. I had a run up to Rowlands Gill and back on Saturday. ACC set around 68/70 going up and indicated mpg for the northbound journey was 57. Coming back, low 50's with ACC set somewhat higher.

[Sootchucker]

Had a real good run in the GTD yesterday (first time in a long while), down to Lichfield. Took it stead on the M6 (65-70ish) and then 50mph through the road works (average speed cameras), then 60ish down the A50 and other A roads to Lichfield, and was pretty chuffed to see these figures on my return. This was from a cold start, on quite a busy M6.

Car set to individual mode on the driver profile select - which for me is Engine - Normal, DCC - Comfort, ACC - Sport

So 161mile round trip at an average speed of 48mph and it returned an indicated 64.5mpg (which knowing my computers accuracy) should work out at about 61-62mpg. Pretty chuffed with that on a DSG box. It had my theoretical indicated range as 659 miles which I've never had before (415 range plus 244 miles travelled).

Still not quite the 68.9mpg Extra Urban that VW quote (based upon a real 62mpg it's still 10% out), but pretty much in line with the advertised Combined figure of 60.1mpg for my model.

[J400uk]

I've got a rental 1.6 TDI at the moment. On a 60-mile cross country run yesterday with 4 people and luggage achieved 64mpg. Not bad I thought but then I had a look at the official figures and saw that officially it should do 74mpg combined! So I think the rated Mk7 figures are totally unrealistic really 

[KyleB]

I've got a rental 1.6 TDI at the moment. On a 60-mile cross country run yesterday with 4 people and luggage achieved 64mpg. Not bad I thought but then I had a look at the official figures and saw that officially it should do 74mpg combined! So I think the rated Mk7 figures are totally unrealistic really 

It is because the consumption tests have a lot of standstill time in them and cars with stop start can easily manipulate their MPG figures.

I've noticed a big increase with the improvement in temps. I'm getting 55MPG regularly now (calculated, not indicated)

[J400uk]

Agreed. I'm not complaining at the Mk7 economy as it's more than acceptable, but it's a shame the official figures are now meaningless. My Mk6 is rated at 53 and it always averages at least that.

[morphman82]

The MPG is great TBH. I had a Leon FR PD170 with bluefin and daily got 45mpg from it and on a long run got 60MPG easily. Now had the MK7 GTD since May last year. Just back from a 5 thousand round mile trip to France (230 hours or driving!!) and reset everything before i went.

Average 52mpg, best 61mpg, and believe me i wasn't driving fast as nobody wants to attract Foreign police on their tail. Maximum per tank was around 490.

[Mohsin]

Okay so just hit my personal best to my normal trip to work this morning. The journey wasn't particularly different to any other Friday...



Quite impressive and feels like the engine has really opened up compared to when I first got the car last April. Normally on this exact same journey I can get anywhere between approx. 50-60 mpg with 60 mpg on a good day. Never seen it this high before. Oh and this was the figure door to door.

[KyleB]

Top effort that Mohsin. The 16.5 Celsius temp will of helped too.

[Mohsin]

Yep for sure when comparing to winter results. Comparing to similar temps from last year, this is a lot better.

If only this was a long term average! Haha.

Got my service due in a couple of weeks so I'm hoping oil change will improve the consumption a little.