2.0T FSI Engine??

I'm with Howard, pretty much what he said :p

Nothing like dropping a cog and throwing the hammer down!

I don't drive for economy, the car is pretty standard apart from some high flow injectors, intake mods and a Powerflow with no cat, so probably about 130-140bhp, and I hit 45mpg regularly. Mostly A roads, with a bit of motorway.

9mpg? I don't think so, even in the 620ti on an OcUK Yorkshire meet I got 33mpg over the whole day, when hooning it was about 15-20 for most of the time. Apart from when held up by Wez's A3 ;)

Modern figures car manufacturers quote are silly, Mum has a C3 that's meant to do 48mpg and it gets 35, all mixed driving. Dad's Zafira CDTi is meant to get 53 and gets 40... bit of a difference!
 
mjt said:
i find slipstreaming a lorry easier. probably cheating though, and you get überstonechipping
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Thats the easy way I get to triple MPG figures. Its interesting to see which lorries are the best to get behind cos you can feel the car tuck up behind some better than others and you start accelerating. National Express coaches are good aswell as they sit pretty much at 70.
 
Dr Who said:
That is because you are driving it way over the spec for an extra urban fuel consumption figure. I am sure there are many drivers of the 118D who manage to achieve more than 67mpg. I am fairly confident your definition of efficient is a way off what an extra urban consumption test would use, you would be amazed how little throttle you would need to use.

70 is a very inefficent speed to sit at with cruise control, try it closer to 55 and I would bet you can exceed the 67mpg
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Sitting at 70 on the Motorway is arguably the most economical way anyone normal will drive in the real world and therefore offers them a best case scenario in terms of the fuel economy they can acheive.

Yes its possible to do better by sitting at a constant 55mph on a Tuesday behind a lorry but nobody does that - most poeple will never better the economy they get on a Motorway trip.
 
[TW]Fox;15617779 said:
Sitting at 70 on the Motorway is arguably the most economical way anyone normal will drive in the real world and therefore offers them a best case scenario in terms of the fuel economy they can acheive.

Yes its possible to do better by sitting at a constant 55mph on a Tuesday behind a lorry but nobody does that - most poeple will never better the economy they get on a Motorway trip.
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Well when fuel hits £2 a litre, some of us won't worry quite so much eh?

Just because its arguably the most economical some people drive, doesn't make it right.
 
I had an Audi A4 SE with the 2.0T FSI lump in it at 220ps. Was a nice engine, comfortable and relatively easy... no real problems. On my normal 40 mile run to work it would get around 32mpg and that was both motorways and city roads at 6am.
 
[TW]Fox;15618560 said:
People are just not going to drive on Motorways at 60mph.

And if we are going to be daft enough to just cars based on 60mph fuel economy great, my 530i is now a 45mpg car. Awesome!
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I do and many others do, YOU and many others won't that's called choice mate.
 
You'd never catch me driving at 60mph the whole time, have you seen the average quality of driving from people who do so? I want to be as far away from those tailgaiting, book reading, makeup applying muppets who think they are safe because they aren't speeding as is possible.
 
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