Fuel Consumption - How's THAT going ?

[terrafirma]

Definitely not holding back. Was worried I might be going too hard. Based on the consumption. But it's a sports car so it's made to be pushed hard so figured that's what I'll do. Besides got 3 years to fix anything for free. I won't worry about it then until later on, cheers for advice.

[Lucas_R]

I've picked an R up recently, done only 700kms but the fuel consumption is off the charts. Averaging almost 13L for that first 700kms but sometimes jumps up to 16/17 if I push ever so slightly. This is my first Golf/Volkswagen etc so I don't know what to expect all I know if I'd hoped it'd be less than my Holden ute.

As brad said - let it run in for a few thousand km's before getting too worried. My old Mk6 Golf R (which was a less efficient engine and the car weighed more than the Mk7 version) averaged in the low 9L range per 100km and than was mostly short trips around town (it very rarely went on the highway). And the engine in that was modified too (stage 2+).

A guy i work with has a Mk7 R and he has a 100-110km round trip every day from home-work-home and he fills up every 6 days - so that's 600 odd km's out of a tank - and he is quite a lead foot (his car is tuned too).

[terrafirma]

I'm not too concerned in a way that I think it's poor mileage I just didn't want a problem with mine specifically. If after its well and truly run in it still has poor mileage I won't care, I didn't buy the car for that. I just want what was sold to me and a low to mid 9's is about what I'm hoping to get. I'll check back in a few thousand k's with where it's at. Will probably do a stage 1 when I'm bored with it, still plenty of time before that happens.

[Lucas_R]

I'm not too concerned in a way that I think it's poor mileage I just didn't want a problem with mine specifically. If after its well and truly run in it still has poor mileage I won't care, I didn't buy the car for that. I just want what was sold to me and a low to mid 9's is about what I'm hoping to get. I'll check back in a few thousand k's with where it's at. Will probably do a stage 1 when I'm bored with it, still plenty of time before that happens.

Stage 1 tune makes a huge difference on the Mk7 R - makes it go from a "brisk" car to a damn fast car.

As for mileage - unless you drive on a perfectly flat freeway all day at 80kph you will never get the economy stated on the windscreen sticker, it's just not realistic in the real world with traffic/start-stop driving/hills/etc etc but you should be closer to 10L per 100km once the engine has run in and loosened up a bit.

[pepito]

Thought I'd made a calculation mistake when I only recently started recording consumption figures but it checks out.

I'm averaging 7.9 l/100km, all city driving, in Sports mode, with air-con on a substantial proportion of the time.

[SamH]

Guys,

I recently purchased the GTI Performance and luv the car. But I'm not getting the consumptions that VW mentioned. i'm getting roughly 9.2L/100 75% driving short distance by my wife. Any idea why I'm not getting around 7L/100 on this. Would like to know others experiences too

[Kiaorana]

Hi mate, I got a 2016 GTI DSG non performance with15k kms. I'm getting 7L only on motorway with cruise control. As soon as I'm doing a bit of city, it goes up to 9L/100

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[Tuan]

Reasons are because your car is new, short distances / cold engine = higher fuel consumption.

It's very unlikely that you are able to match said consumption with 'normal day to day driving'. Some will tell you they can match or exceed these figures but I don't really consider highway driving and shifting at 1,500 RPM real driving'

And perhaps most importantly, although cynical, VW (and all the other manufacturers) are probably lying to us. Look up latest Mitsubishi fuel economy bombshell.

Just enjoy the car and take fuel consumption numbers with a grain of salt.

[Dutch77]

I'm not so sure it's lying as much as tuning the car for the tests to get the best results (and no that is not an invitation for someone to bring up cheat software, go cry in the whiners section). I know the Mk6 and from memory the Mk7 have various flat spots in their standard tunes which happen to coincide with where the official fuel cycle testing is run, which is one reason why tuners are able to get great results with just stage 1 - by basically wiping these out.

There's a whole thread on economy already which is where I am sure this will end up, but FWIW and as above, you'd need to be on a hill or using minimal acceleration to get to 7 on a short run. I used to get into the 7s on country drives that had a mix of cruising and spirited driving; I had sessions well into double digits including around town; and I went into the low 6s at times on the highway or even with clear roads at night.

[Tuan]

Haha whiners section .. that's gold.

And yes, the consumption and CO2/NOX tests etc. are done indoors on rollers and yes the cars can be / are programmed to maximise fuel efficiency during those cycles (and no, I don't need to mention dieselgate).

It's just something to compare different manufacturers against each other, but to actually match those figures with your own car on the road, with 4 passengers, a full tank of fuel, boot full of groceries, tyres out of alignment, air conditioning on full on a 40 degree heat day ... good luck.