Impressive Facelift GTI MPG

[mcmaddy]

I always take at least 10% off any manufacturer figures and even that's optimistic. It's more like 15 to 20 😁.
@maxwell I'd be very careful doing a road trip of that length straight from pick up. Quite a few stories of increased oil consumption on some cars that have that kind of run in.

[I wanted a GTi]

I always take at least 10% off any manufacturer figures and even that's optimistic. It's more like 15 to 20 😁.
@maxwell I'd be very careful doing a road trip of that length straight from pick up. Quite a few stories of increased oil consumption on some cars that have that kind of run in.

I didn't see maxwell's post about going up to John o' Grotes after pick up. Definitely wouldn't recommend doing that unless you doing it all on A&B roads and even then I'd be thinking of doing it after a thousand miles of normal driving over a few weeks.

[Ritchie2]

If the Golf is anything like the Fiesta ST-3 I currently own, you will see much better MPG once you go past 15k miles. At that point the engine seems to be fully bedded in, I recently got 48 MPG on a 50 mile motorway run, followed by 15 miles on A/B roads and a bit of town driving at the end. That is astounding for a 200 BHP pocket rocket.

I think a lot of people pick up a new car and expect the manufacturers MPG figures from the off. It takes quite a while for the engine to bed in.

Really? Is there people stupid enough still to think the manufacturers figures are nothing but pie in the sky?

I can get within 10% of the manufacturers figures in both my A3 and ST-3, in my experience they are not far off the mark once run in properly and driven as economically as possible.

[hog_hedge]

That's more like it

[Jim_mk7.5]

That's more like it

So how does (UK) mpg differ to other mpg figures? 32mpg seems about right for a 230bhp hot hatch. Anyone getting 40+ must be driving like Miss Daisy.. 

[I wanted a GTi]

That's more like it

So how does (UK) mpg differ to other mpg figures?

If that's a serious question, US gallons are smaller.

[Duke Dickson]

If I could manage to attach an image (dumb me), getting @ 35 out of a pre-facelift PP without any long runs and with a decent amount of 5 mph crawling.

Almost makes up for the lack of other stuff, like the sound, though that gap is filled in other ways.

[maxwell90]

I always take at least 10% off any manufacturer figures and even that's optimistic. It's more like 15 to 20 😁.
@maxwell I'd be very careful doing a road trip of that length straight from pick up. Quite a few stories of increased oil consumption on some cars that have that kind of run in.

Cheers for the advice although I won't literally be driving from the dealership to john ogroats. After returning to north Wales from jcb vw and some commuting the car will be ready for a road trip up north I'm sure!

My a3 gets 65mpg on my commute and audi claim 67mpg, apart from the hills of the Pennines on the m62 it's a very economical 160 mile commute, all motorway and about 30 miles of 50mph zones so quite confident the golf will do 40+mpg. Then at the weekends I couldn't care less what it does as it will be used for what it was intended 😎

[deltarikk]

I've just done my first motorway 100 miles round trip today in Gti CS and average was just under 34mpg with speeds between 70 - 75 (honest!) and that was in Eco mode....only 760 miles total so far. Its very similar to my previous M235i in that dept, in every other dept for me the CS has it licked I'd say .....apart from a straight line blast 

[maxwell90]

I've just done my first motorway 100 miles round trip today in Gti CS and average was just under 34mpg with speeds between 70 - 75 (honest!) and that was in Eco mode....only 760 miles total so far. Its very similar to my previous M235i in that dept, in every other dept for me the CS has it licked I'd say .....apart from a straight line blast 

Got to be happy with that seen as the car is still being run in!

How does the soundtrack compare to the 235?