GTI Fuel economy

[Splashalot]

A little off topic, but does anyone have a link to the new WTLP fuel consumption figures for all new cars on sale?  For the life of me I cannot find a data base of the new figures anywhere.

[Jim_mk7.5]

I'm in the south east and it is annoying, not using a motorway station or anything just a high traffic A road one. I asked one of my colleagues to find the price of Tesco 99 next to work as he fills up there and it's £1.279 but I don't think I want to put Tesco fuel in my car anyway.

What do you guys put in your cars?


(I understand I'm a fuel snob and cleaning cant be quantified)

Tesco 99 is great.

[SRGTD]

IMO (and I’ll probably get shot down in flames for saying it ) life’s too short to worry about whether overall fuel consumption is 30 mpg, 35 mpg or any other figure.

Just fill it, drive it and enjoy it! .

[fredgroves]

A little off topic, but does anyone have a link to the new WTLP fuel consumption figures for all new cars on sale?  For the life of me I cannot find a data base of the new figures anywhere.

No there isn't a central database it seems.

The closest I found was the UK government one - which potentially offered this in a single place but then seemed to have bugger all data in it.

Its quite poor really - if we are supposed to be making car choices with an eye to the environment, why is this comparative dataset not available?

[Splashalot]

Thanks Fred. My thoughts exactly.

[Catnapper]

I'm in the south east and it is annoying, not using a motorway station or anything just a high traffic A road one. I asked one of my colleagues to find the price of Tesco 99 next to work as he fills up there and it's £1.279 but I don't think I want to put Tesco fuel in my car anyway.

What do you guys put in your cars?


(I understand I'm a fuel snob and cleaning cant be quantified)

Tesco 99 is great.

Agreed, I use it 99% of the time with no worries. On a gentle trip back over the A66 managed 40mpg

[P6GTD]

I try to use Tesco 99 whenever I can.
Oban to Perth this summer I got 47.5 mpg / av speed 48 mph.
OK, I was drifting along but these are far from flat level motorway roads.
Plenty up and down box for corners and gradients.
In my first couple of GTIs I would get anxious about mpg.
Now I just drive how the mood takes.
On a fast motorway trip I still see high 30s.

[AudiA8Quattro]

I’ve got a 2019 R with 4000 miles on it.
I get 28mpg in eco mode doing the daily commute to work, which is about 15 miles, that pretty much all urban driving.
I find that it stays around that the whole time in eco mode, it drops on A roads and motorways over a certain speed!
In race mode, it drops to about 20-23 MPG.
Also, I tried a tank of super unleaded, and the MPG actually dropped! What’s that all about??

[Toppy]

IMO (and I’ll probably get shot down in flames for saying it ) life’s too short to worry about whether overall fuel consumption is 30 mpg, 35 mpg or any other figure.

Just fill it, drive it and enjoy it! .

Spot on I totally agree with this, its a great can and i love driving it 

[mcmaddy]

I’ve got a 2019 R with 4000 miles on it.
I get 28mpg in eco mode doing the daily commute to work, which is about 15 miles, that pretty much all urban driving.
I find that it stays around that the whole time in eco mode, it drops on A roads and motorways over a certain speed!
In race mode, it drops to about 20-23 MPG.
Also, I tried a tank of super unleaded, and the MPG actually dropped! What’s that all about??

you're supposed to be using super unleaded anyway in an R aren't you? Why are you driving in Eco mode? And after one tank you complain about a drop in consumption? Was the weather colder when you tried the tank of Super?