Reply With QuoteIt's quite different. When you buy a Hybrid, fuel consumption matters. When you buy a performance vehicle, nobody actually really cares if it averages 2 litres more.
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Claimed Fuel Consumption on GTI
Does anyone ever get the claimed 6.1L / 100km consumption on the GTI? I'm averaging in the 8's!
If it's anything like this lady in the US - I think she's on to something!!!!
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It's quite different. When you buy a Hybrid, fuel consumption matters. When you buy a performance vehicle, nobody actually really cares if it averages 2 litres more.
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lol, I wouldn't worry about it. That's still pretty good consumption. When I used to drive my Polo TDI DSG - I would only get around 9L/100km in city and about 5.5-6L/100km on highway.
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Claimed fuel consumption figures (ADR81) should only be used to compare similar cars.
If you look at the Polo GTI the Urban Figure is 7.7L/100km.
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But yours was the dud, wasn't it? It SHOULD have been doing much better than that (my older 1.9 TDi Polo does FAR better)Originally Posted by THE_EGG
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I got a real 6.1L on my Golf GTI after a highway run to the Gold Coast on a 31 degree day and the A/C running - which is bang on the extra urban cycle in the brochue.
How much was due to the APR remap I don't know but they say it makes a difference......
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While I don't have my GTI yet, I've test driven three different ones and their consumption has always been in the low to mid 7's (7.1-7.7). I thought that was pretty good considering they're usually driven fairly rough being demos and all.
When buying a car it's best to just go by the urban figure more than anything.
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Correct!
The published manufacturer/government fuel consumption figures is a tool that allows one to compare vehicles on a level playing field.
They are not designed to predict (seriously, how is it supposed to do that?) what one particular driver will achieve for their particular journey.
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My Aurion ZR6 is rated for 9.9L/100km i'm lucky if i get 16L/100km... I have once got 6.8L/100km driving down the freeway at 100km/h with no AC, fan or radio on at night time - but everyone above is right its going to vary wildly from driver to road to outside conditions.
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Used to have an Aurion before the GTI and I always got around the 10 mark. You must have a heavy foot!!!!
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