the new small hatch skoda diesel

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was reading the paper at work and saw an advert for a 70mpg skoda (sorry forgot the model, was about the same size as a swift), diesel, 3pot 1.4 80hp. Sounds reasonable......until you see the price 11.5k! I mean really, will people buy this?? It will fit the 'omg need high mpg' crowd, but are people REALLY as bad as fox says?:p

imo may aswel buy a 1.2litre corsa as it has the same power and save thousands of pounds.
 
This?

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Skoda greenline.
 
God, another one of these utterly crap green cars.

£11,500 for a Skoda Fabia with.. wait for it.. windup windows and no air conditioning. Thats right folks, thats why its 'green', becuase theyve removed everything they can for it, and then charge a fortune becuase its green.

Why are people suckered in by this crap?
 
Actually, talking of stupid pointless 'green' small cars, the price of the Polo Bluemotion is a complete joke - £12125 for the base model with absolutely no kit whatsoever. Free road tax though and a claimed 70mpg (which you can't reproduce in real life conditions).
 
Thing about these cars is they are genius on behalf of the car companies, sell something that is extremely cheap to make for maximum profit because its "green" ha. Good old VAG group not making enough money off of the latest golf.
 
Now we just need to wait until they turn it around and make the other cars more expensive for not being "green" whilst actually keeping these newer "green" cars the same price :( .
 
get the 1.2 Panda diesel if you want to be green, it's small, thus can carry your creature comforts and still to 70mpg. About 70bhp, but as I say, less car. And they're much cheaper.

Or you can get the same engine with 90bhp in a 199 Punto (base of the Corsa), about 60mpg.
 
Begbie said:
Can any car do 70mpg in real life conditions?
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Most cars will perform better than the published mpg figures in real life if you can drive.

All except the hybrids, where the battery is charged fully before the test (and if you are Toyota, the car set not to charge the battery in the test).
 
BigglesPiP said:
Most cars will perform better than the published mpg figures in real life if you can drive.
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No they won't - sometimes you can get close to them but generally speaking most of them are not attainable.

And no, getting the combined figure on a Motorway trip is not 'performing better than published mpg figures'
 
My Grandad's Punto does about 20 miles a year on motorways.

The rest of the time it's going up and down the village, his average mpg is considerably higher than the published figures.
 
I wasn't aware there was a published figure for 'going up and down the village'. Perhaps it's something you imagined, like the Alfa in your sig ;)
 
People who don't read threads are annoying.

Someone asked if you can actually reach the published figures of these economical cars (urban and extra urban).

You can.

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