ECO/COMFORT/NORMAL/SPORTS/INDIVIDUAL

[Bullfinch]

Sport mode for me all the time.  Normal has too vague steering.  Eco - are you having a laugh?!!!

[Medic1281]

I no longer have a golf but drive a Q5 with the drive select options. In real terms the efficiency setting saves me 5mpg over the dynamic setting. I assume this is mostly due to a different driving style in Eco mode as its noticably slower and changes gear at1400rpm, where as dynamic mode just encourages me to drive quicker!!

[fredgroves]

I should have stated that I have a manual gearbox - quite possibly "eco" makes a difference for DSG.

Oh and I do use comfort too - whenever I face a speedbumped hell or I drive into a county with no budget for pothole repair. Makes a big difference!

[Finglonga]

Always use Individual mode with everything in normal except steering and lights that are in Sport mode and the LSD is on permanently.

Eco is terrible and the tiny amount you may save on fuel it outweighed by the pads you will be replacing due to the extra braking you need to do for any downhill.

Normal is too bland for me and the steering way to twitchy.

Sport is just embarrassing for normal town driving as you sound like a pensioner over revving it too much, especially with a non stock exhaust.

[linc-dub]

Sport all the way for me too, especially with the Sport & Sound pack fitted!

[davewilliams000]

Individual with the following:

• Engine - Sport - prefer this throttle map
• ACC - Eco - not sure if a placebo effect but feel it does give a few extra mpg over normal as it tends to back off a car in front a little earlier rather than braking too hard and then accelerating back up to speed again.
• Everything else - Normal - engine sound in normal nicely cleans up the small amount of diesel clatter that you can very occasionally hear, but is not so loud that it sounds fake (unlike sport)

Mines a standard GTD manual 

[Sootchucker]

On my previous mk7 GTD (2013), i would agree with you all the Eco mode really strangled the performance and was a bloody nuisance (for the tiny bit of extra mpg it gave you -if any).

However on my 2016 GTD the maps seemed to have really changed. Eco is now really driveable and very similar in nature and performance to "Normal" mode, albeit with the great coasting feature (mine is a DSG), and it's now good for a real 3-4mpg improvement on a proper journey. I now use this quite often when just motorway cruising.

[mjh_056]

Drive around in Comfort for the day to day and move the DSG to sport for roundabouts, junctions.

Select ECO on long motorway runs as find it does save a little and makes zero difference to the cruise, and if do need to really move around in traffic then you move the DSG again. But purely for Motorways as too much lag for any other condition.

Sport is for roads that know give me a little more licence to push on.

[GTD1414]

I thought sport didn't do anything to the throttle on the GTD, or am I missing something?

[fredgroves]

I thought sport didn't do anything to the throttle on the GTD, or am I missing something?

Yes, it changes the throttle mapping (like a pedal box)