The MK6 Fuel Consumption (Most / Least per Tank) Thread

[jrgti]

lol lucky i didnt get a GTI id be spewing with 8.6 (as my best) & other economys people seem to get... glad i got little 1.4 lol

You mean the R right? I can easily average 7.0 or less to Mandurah and back with my GTI mk6. Will depend on the load and the way you drive of course.
During a trip down to Margaret River from Perth with 2 passengers and a boot full of water/food, the average on the trip guage was 8.5. On the way back with less in the boot it was 7.5. Air-con was always on for both trips there and back as well.
I had only done ~5000kms with the car just before the trip so it wasn't thoroughly "run in". Also I used Shell RON95 to MG but on the way back it was BP RON98 so maybe that made a difference too.
Personally I only noticed an improvement with the average for my day to day driving after 10000kms.

[SMOK3Y]

ya didnt notice it was R but still with nearly 7ks on clock my car says says 6.1 average (unusually avg speed & litres reset themselves at 6ks??). and i get about 810 ks to 45/6 litres i bought this car for economy i still wouldnt be real happy with 7/7.5 average. and i havent even done a long trip yet.

[Mountainman]

Our 90TSI manual has averaged 6.1L/100km up to 46,000km with a best a couple of times of 5.4L/100km. The most distance on one tank was 909km using 50L and gettig 5.5L/100km, which was almost into diesel territory. It took us the whole day of driving.

[SMOK3Y]

i have no doubt i could get 900-1000kays on a long trip in my 90tsi the 810 average i get is combined 60/70% highway rest urban and i flog it lol

[Candyman]

Loving my R. Never bother to look at fuel use because the vehicle is so much fun.

When the car tells me, I fill it up.

Life is like that

Still, bloody amazed how good it is doing after only 3 days out of the dealers. Returning fuel consumption figures close to the GTI I had - same roads, same driving style. Must have a good one I guess.

[Tobes_WIR35]

My average over the first 6,000 km to date is 9.4 L/100km.

I live in the city, work in the city, so most of my driving is stop/start/slow. I think you can pretty much disregard the ADR combined figures for any car, unless you live in the country, as I've owned 3 brand new cars in the last 3 years and they have all been considerably higher than the ADR combined figures. The city and highway figures however, are pretty spot on I have found.

A fair amount depends on how you drive it too, it's so much bloody fun to drive the GTI with "enthusiasm".

9.4 L/100km is about half of what my 4 litre V6 Navara D-40 auto used to consume, so I'm not complaining....

[Mi16 Man]

Here ya go....424km to this 'half tank' in a manual GTI. I'm running a mongrel mix of 'Ultimate'/'8000'/'Vortex 98'.

[Ryan41]

just got 483km's out of my R.. and filled it up on ultimate 98 at BP.. $89.10 at $1.69 a litre..

f*ck qld fuel prices

[hooba]

Here ya go....424km to this 'half tank' in a manual GTI. I'm running a mongrel mix of 'Ultimate'/'8000'/'Vortex 98'.

You'd get even better economy if you listened to your car and changed up to 6th gear sooner. 70km/h in 5th is way too many revs, especially with the cruise control on.

[Tobes_WIR35]

You'd get even better economy if you listened to your car and changed up to 6th gear sooner. 70km/h in 5th is way too many revs, especially with the cruise control on.

I see a number 6....not 5...