Hi Gilbert,
I'm finding economy is actually....improved! Especially at motorway speeds, my previous highest MPG was around 44 on a longish motorway run going 60-65. I recently managed to get 60MPG sitting at 60-65mph on a 1 hour or so motorway run, which I was pretty impressed with. Obviously this is not how I you're chilling with cruise control on at around 65mph and not breaking too often you can achieve pretty impressive results. Town has been improved also, clearing 30MPG far more often, Edinburgh traffic is pretty horrible too. I got a GTI+ spec, so it's fairly well optioned, only thing I would have liked which it doesn't have is climate control (which is an option on the Polo sadly). I was really put off by the red interior pre-purchase, but it's now somehow grown on me and I don't mind it, but I completely understand why many wouldn't like it! This is my first non-manual car, in an ideal world I would have 2 cars and one manual and one auto, but due to work etc the reality is I was only able to enjoy the manual box about 5% of the time, so going auto made sense for me as I'm often sitting in stop start traffic to and from work
with the 400bhp Hybrid it's the quickest thing I've had with 4 wheels!
