Average MPG - Longterm - GTI

[Mr Savage]

In my experience this is how the GTI economy behaves and all you guys posting 40-50 MPG and pretending that it's the normal MPG you achieve in day to day driving conditions and various routes are kidding yourselves. If you are getting 40-50 MPG you are not using any power at all or are driving at a very smooth and consistent speed on the motorway. It goes like this;

Long Motorway Journeys - 40-45MPG
Driving around town at 30-40MPH with normal traffic - 30MPG
Driving around town without traffic - 35MPG.
Driving around town in heavy traffic (lots of stop/start) - 22-27MPG
Driving the car spiritedly - 22-25MPG.

These are my average real-life results from various driving styles over my last 5000 miles.

[Ginagee]

In my experience this is how the GTI economy behaves and all you guys posting 40-50 MPG and pretending that it's the normal MPG you achieve in day to day driving conditions and various routes are kidding yourselves. If you are getting 40-50 MPG you are not using any power at all or are driving at a very smooth and consistent speed on the motorway. It goes like this;

Long Motorway Journeys - 40-45MPG
Driving around town at 30-40MPH with normal traffic - 30MPG
Driving around town without traffic - 35MPG.
Driving around town in heavy traffic (lots of stop/start) - 22-27MPG
Driving the car spiritedly - 22-25MPG.

These are my average real-life results from various driving styles over my last 5000 miles.

Thanks Mr Savage. This pretty much sums up the mpg on my PP GTi, and how different the mpg is for different journeys.
I'm NOT getting this fabled 40-45mpg on long motorway journeys though!
Currently with 2700miles on the clock, long term mpg is 34.8. I mostly do 'around town, no traffic - 30 to 40 mph' driving.
A long drive down to Devon and back helped get the long term mpg looking better, it was at 29.7 prior to the trip.

[Mr Savage]

In my experience this is how the GTI economy behaves and all you guys posting 40-50 MPG and pretending that it's the normal MPG you achieve in day to day driving conditions and various routes are kidding yourselves. If you are getting 40-50 MPG you are not using any power at all or are driving at a very smooth and consistent speed on the motorway. It goes like this;

Long Motorway Journeys - 40-45MPG
Driving around town at 30-40MPH with normal traffic - 30MPG
Driving around town without traffic - 35MPG.
Driving around town in heavy traffic (lots of stop/start) - 22-27MPG
Driving the car spiritedly - 22-25MPG.

These are my average real-life results from various driving styles over my last 5000 miles.

Thanks Mr Savage. This pretty much sums up the mpg on my PP GTi, and how different the mpg is for different journeys.
I'm NOT getting this fabled 40-45mpg on long motorway journeys though!
Currently with 2700miles on the clock, long term mpg is 34.8. I mostly do 'around town, no traffic - 30 to 40 mph' driving.
A long drive down to Devon and back helped get the long term mpg looking better, it was at 29.7 prior to the trip.

No problem Ginagee. My long term average is also around that figure and seems to stick around the 30 mark. To get the famous 40-45MPG on motorways you need to pretty much go into the slow lane and cruise along at 60-65MPH without using Adaptive Cruise Control and with Climate Control turned off and feathering the pedal and releasing it all together when going down hill to build up speed. I know, not really worth it.

[GTI7me]

I wouldn't agree with your last point Savage. I can quite easily achieve more than 40MPG on the motorway when sticking between 75 and 85. I don't even have to put any effort in to get that kind of consumption, it just happens 

J

[Raymondo]

I agree with both points.  To get into the high 40's, yes I do need to keep it at about 60-65 and really think about my driving style.  So you're spot on Mr Savage.  Does it bother me driving like this?  Not on the way home with average speed cameras and sometimes heavy traffic.  How can I have fun in that?  So why waste fuel?  I might as well set challenges on saving it for the fun drives.

But I also agree with GTI7me and that I can be more spirited / not worry about driving style and get anything from 37-42 on my commutes.

It's only when I decide to put some lead in my shoes and have fun that the MPG goes south.

I think we've all said, the GTI is not a car we buy for consumption.  If we want better we'd go for a GTD or a TDI.  But the beauty of the car is that if we want decent mpg and are prepared to put some though into our driving style, then 40-50 is easily achievable.

[pjr]

Long term average is 34.0 according to trip computer, and 34.1 according to my manual record on Spritmonitor.

A journey today on hilly, twisty A roads returned 40.2, although some of that was stuck behind slower moving traffic with no opportunity to overtake. Although, once the road straightened out a bit, I did overtake a few cars 

Long Term

Today's Trip

[Ap69]

6k miles completed  long term before it reset its self was circa 2-3k miles 39.2mpg.

Highest seen today steady motorway run which included some traffic stop start.

[RVallance]

Hi all,

I'm getting about 37mpg on the 8 mile run to work which consists of mixed roads. Although it takes almost 10mins of my 15min journey for the oil to reach temp so I don't get the chance to give it some stick. On the motorway I get mid 40's so I'm pretty pleased with the fuel consumption.
Much better than my mk4 20vT was giving me.
To be honest, I'm not fussed about mpg as I only do 7k miles per year.
This is my fourth car and fourth GTI (mk2,mk3 and mk4) and this is the best yet, I love it. Although the mk2 will always have a special place in my memories, that was a brilliant, fun car to drive.

[HK Phooey]

An interesting thread - just been out to look at my car, not paid too much to the mpg so far.

But long term with an average speed of 40mph I'm getting 35.8mpg - that's mainly A and B roads around the Cotswolds.

The best I've seen so far is 40mpg on a run down to Somerset with the family on board and the cruise set at 80mph.

Given the car's only done 5,000 miles so far and I have a fairly heavy right foot I didn't think that was too bad. From experience it usually takes a good 12,000 before the mpg settles down.

[remlapeel]

Thought I would throw my perspective in. 

My Gti PP manual has now done 18k. I travel most of my time between 40-80 on single track or dual carriage way in generally light traffic.  Each day my journey is a minimum of 20miles each way.  Im not overly heavy footed unless some ricer needs to be taught a lesson... My average is around 37mpg long term with me getting around 350miles from each tank of tesco momentum.