Shell V Power fuel

[T88OMM]

I have been experimenting between V-Power and Tesco's 99ron and have to say the car feels a little more responsive with Tesco's stuff and I seem to get a few more miles out of a tank with it to 

[RedRobin]

....I've heard good about Tesco fuel too but I don't want to support anything Tesco do! I'll stick to Shell.

[SteveS]

i use tesco too. cant compair but tesco works and its cheaper

[Spaced]

I found Higher Octane fuel definitely loosens up the top rev range, but I don't get any better MPG, if anything 95 Octane can make your engine slightly more economical and give you better response at low revs. (that is if you are driving for economy)

A couple of years ago EVO included a GTI on a fuel test and found that 197 hp was conservative and it was more like 212 hp with Tesco99.

[RedRobin]

I found Higher Octane fuel definitely loosens up the top rev range, but I don't get any better MPG, if anything 95 Octane can make your engine slightly more economical and give you better response at low revs. (that is if you are driving for economy)

A couple of years ago EVO included a GTI on a fuel test and found that 197 hp was conservative and it was more like 212 hp with Tesco99.

....I don't understand why anyone driving for economy would buy a Mk5 GTI in the first place! In fact I know someone locally who bought a Mk5 GTI because they liked the looks and then swopped it for a Mk5 2.0 TDI for economy reasons!!

I'm suspicious of EVO's tests - Rolling Road plots are notoriously varied/unreliable and most standard GTI's don't plot 197 bhp anyway. You're not going to see a gain of 15 bhp due to 1 octane difference, are you?? V-Power is now 99 RON too and didn't exist when EVO did their tests if it was "a couple of years ago".