CC TDI - Fuel economy

[Darks RS]

Just did a trip to Sydney last Friday, filled up to the brim before leaving and refilled this Friday past for a total of 1035k, 512k freeway @ 115-120 the rest a mixture of Canberra open road and urban driving.. Cc performed beautifully!

[hadrami]

After having owned it for around 6 weeks, we're getting around 850kms per tank majority city driving.

Pretty happy with that given that our old Aurion was giving us half of that.

[Guest001]

After having owned it for around 6 weeks, we're getting around 850kms per tank majority city driving.

Pretty happy with that given that our old Aurion was giving us half of that.

But was the tank the same capacity.

Doing consumption by tankful is fraught with errors and anomalies. Eg Our Polo will do nearly 900 k per tank on a trip.

The Landcruiser I had would do over 1000k on a tank The Polo has a 44 L tank and gets 5.1 K per L The Cruiser has a 145L tank and gets about 11k per L So going on "by the tankful" the Cruiser is as economical as the Polo. NOT.

The only way to check consumption without a special tank is to fill it till you can see the level do the trip and fill it at the same pump to the same level.

Then I will believe your figures. Saying I went from A to B and still had ABOUT half a tank means nothing as gauges can be unreliable to say the least.

One car I had would read 3/4 full for hours and then all of a sudden it was on 1/4. Was a bit disconcerting if you didnt know about it.

There has been some unrealistic figures posted about consumption being better than what the manufacturers advertise.

As their figures are normally done under controlled conditions at optimum performance to achieve them I wouldnt think they could be replicated in normal urban driving.
I would sooner be realistic than optimistic and fool myself into something that may not be correct.

[hadrami]

But was the tank the same capacity.

Doing consumption by tankful is fraught with errors and anomalies. Eg Our Polo will do nearly 900 k per tank on a trip.

The Landcruiser I had would do over 1000k on a tank The Polo has a 44 L tank and gets 5.1 K per L The Cruiser has a 145L tank and gets about 11k per L So going on "by the tankful" the Cruiser is as economical as the Polo. NOT.

The only way to check consumption without a special tank is to fill it till you can see the level do the trip and fill it at the same pump to the same level.

Then I will believe your figures. Saying I went from A to B and still had ABOUT half a tank means nothing as gauges can be unreliable to say the least.

One car I had would read 3/4 full for hours and then all of a sudden it was on 1/4. Was a bit disconcerting if you didnt know about it.

There has been some unrealistic figures posted about consumption being better than what the manufacturers advertise.

As their figures are normally done under controlled conditions at optimum performance to achieve them I wouldnt think they could be replicated in normal urban driving.
I would sooner be realistic than optimistic and fool myself into something that may not be correct.

Yes, they are both 70 litres.

But obviously the Aurion was a V6 petrol with 200kw which the wife didn't need, hence our decision to go for a better car in all aspects (- power I guess) but in a diesel.