Average MPG - Longterm - GTI

[cheets7]

MPG figures advertised by most manufactures seem to be having a laugh! How do they get away with it?

[Darlo]

I averaged about 27 out on my first tank (just shy of 300 miles).

Getting about 31 out of this tank so far.

I'm very disappointed about the mpg. Hoped it would rise with more miles but it looks like its always going to miles away from the advertised which is annoying as I was getting book mpg out of my jcw mini which I had owned from new.

I think its shocking from vw to advertise such unattainable figures. I was hoping for 300+ miles to a tank.... Here's hoping!!

[DougL]

Not quite so impossible perhaps? Speed limits were 40 and 50 mph dual carriageway

[corgi]

They are the only figures they can advertise...

They are the official figures from the EU tests which are well known to be unrepresentative...

It's not just VW, most manufacturers in the most competitive segments suffer the same... Is it a coincidence that fuel consumption is a major buy factor in this part of the market... If you look at  Honest  john's website he has a section that collects real fuel consumption figures from readers...

Frankly, a little research would have indicated that real-world fuel consumption would be 25%-30% worse than the quoted figures... If you set your expectation on that basis you ought not to be disappointed...

Not right... But it's the way it is...

[Carbon VW]

My average mpg is 36 after 2500miles. Last week I drove on an eight mile trip and without breaking any speed limits I averaged 43.2 mpg. Any yes I have a photo if anyone doesn't believe.  So it is possible to get it into the forties. And I put the shoe down at every opportunity usually so I am very happy with my long term mpg of mid to high thirties.

[Carbon VW]

My average mpg is 36 after 2500miles. Last week I drove on an eight mile trip and without breaking any speed limits I averaged 43.2 mpg. Any yes I have a photo if anyone doesn't believe.  So it is possible to get it into the forties. And I put the shoe down at every opportunity usually so I am very happy with my long term mpg of mid to high thirties.

80 miles sorry not 8 !!! 

[monkeyhanger]

I do wonder whether the gear change prompt requires a bit of tweaking as I have seen in mine that sometimes the gear change prompt encourages you to stay in a higher gear pushing on with the torque rather than coming down a gear and not needing the torque, and looking like the lower gear would actually be the more economical choice when you view the instant mpg figures on the MFD.

In my brothers mk6 GTI (and in every car I drove) the only thing to make you change a gear is your ears and your ability to "feel" your car. The prompts of the MFD is something that does NOT make the car more economical, and that's something I found out after constant observation of consumption of the aforementioned  cars when I (and their drivers) drove the car in the same road, in the same direction, in the same day, once depending on the prompts and once depending on your...instinct. The prompts of VW cars always make the engine labour while when driving without obeying them, the car feels much happier and more frugal. We got an average 1.5 lt/100km better when we were NOT doing VW's thing.
Fact: my brother makes a journey of 450km twice a month. Average consumption is 7.3 lt/100km and his driving is REALLY fast and smooth. And that's with an mk6. (Same consumption before and after an APR ECU reprogramming.)
You should always stay IN the torque after upchanges and not the edges of it (meaning 1500-2000rpms).

My GTD is much more comfortable accelerating from 2000 revs than the old 1800 of previous TDIs that I am used to - is this a thing seen with the GTIs as well? When i'm driving very conservatively the car's prompts and I aren't too far away. I really think the newest generation of engines wants to be driven a little harder/gears held onto a little longer.

[mk7gti]

Steady driving at 70 for 20 minutes with a mixture of motorway and city driving:

[Darlo]

Well I bimbled home from work in Eco mode, 6 miles from cold start... 34mpg. Suppose that's not to bad

[gustavomcvieira]

In a 2000 km's trip between Luxembourg and Portugal I averaged 6,6 L/100 Km that equals 43mpg at an average speed of 100 km/h.

I've 7000 km's on the car with an average consumption of 40mpg.

This is the kind of car that can turn very expensive in a short journey trip ( the starts take a lot on the car), or on a hill climb road.

220 hp ; DSG gearbox...

I recomend in the DSG the use of manual mode.