Mk7 golf fuel costs?

[Finglonga]

How many miles a month/year are you doing? The difference between 30mpg and 35mpg over 10000 miles is only £249

As above, if you are buying the car to save money on fuel keep the Mini as spending £?000's to save a couple of hundred a year is not good finance. If you just fancy a new car then go for it and don't worry about the economy as it will be similar to the Minji.

[Davey2017]

I'm doing roughly 12,000-13,000 miles a year?

[fredgroves]

So Mini Cooper S, same sort of engine and performance (ish) and a slightly lighter car than a Mk7 GTI PP, slightly better MPG.

Not really any surprises there.

I don't know if you were just curious for total cost of ownership calculation or definitely trying to save money.

A manual GTD would give you excellent fuel economy, but so would a Cooper SD if that was your only thing you wanted to sort out.

Oil burners aren't for everyone though, some because of driving patterns, others because they think they don't like derv

[I wanted a GTi]

So Mini Cooper S, same sort of engine and performance (ish) and a slightly lighter car than a Mk7 GTI PP, slightly better MPG.

Not really any surprises there.

I don't know if you were just curious for total cost of ownership calculation or definitely trying to save money.

A manual GTD would give you excellent fuel economy, but so would a Cooper SD if that was your only thing you wanted to sort out.

Oil burners aren't for everyone though, some because of driving patterns, others because they think they don't like derv

I wanted to get a GTi but because I do at least 50k miles every year it had to be a GTD and I know it will be more than happy with it.

[Davey2017]

I'm not looking to buy one  to save money but I don't want to be at the fuel station every day, so I just don't want to be worse off, I drove the gtd and found it just seemed to loose power around 70-80 mph if that makes sense

[jv]

No not really.

Slightly lower mpg, 25% bigger fuel tank. You will be financially worse off and at the fuel station less.

[fredgroves]

I'm not looking to buy one  to save money but I don't want to be at the fuel station every day, so I just don't want to be worse off, I drove the gtd and found it just seemed to loose power around 70-80 mph if that makes sense

Well of course unless you are on a German Autobahn this should not be a problem in the UK.

On *ahem* a German Autobahn I can assure you it pulls just dandy up to quite a bit beyond 80mph.

So it doesn't matter if you are in Germany or not ;-)

[Darlo]

I've owned an r53 cooper s, r56 cooper s and a r56 JCW.

My mk7 GTI was better on fuel than all of them, even better with DTUK box fitted.

It was better all round car but certainly not as fun!

[cosmos]

My long term average after 5000 miles is 35mpg with around 40% city, 40% motorway and 20% countryside.

I'm content with that, I've given up trying to get the best mpg I can as even when I have tried I haven't managed to increase it that much compared to my normal driving style. You just have to enjoy it as unless you're driving a ridiculous number of miles it doesn't make much difference to your pocket.

[Sandtrap]

My car seems to be getting less than the figures quoted here .. I'm at 31-33 mpg . but iv just fitted a pipercross air filter and removed the plastic guard under the filter .. early days yet but mpg seems to be up to 34-36mpg