Fuel consumption for everyone!

[The_Hawk]

Nice work Pete

I added in Mrs Hawk's Dexter and am waiting for her counter to update properly (although it shows fine on the website).

[Rendog]

Hi I'm about to buy a Polo either a 77TSI or 66TDI roughly doing 100km's of freeway travel per day at about 100-110kmph. On paper there is only .5 of a litre difference in fuel consumption between them if this is the case then based on cost I'm leaning towards the 77TSI. Can anyone confirm this the real world performance.

Cheers Ren

[brad]

I drive a Skoda Octavia 1.8tsi about 75km motorway/10km suburbs daily. At the end of the motorway, I'm often down to 5.3L/100km. Motorway driving doesn't make huge differences in fuel consumption (our Calais used to get ~8L/100 on the motorway - 16L/100 around the suburbs).

For the sake of 0.5L/100 I'd be inclined to buy the vehicle you enjoy driving the most. Depreciation costs way more than fuel.

[Mountainman]

Depreciation costs way more than fuel.

OMG - I'm in trouble then. Last financial year I used $9700 of premium unleaded. A couple of more years of that and my wheels will be into negative $ territory.

[brad]

OMG - I'm in trouble then. Last financial year I used $9700 of premium unleaded. A couple of more years of that and my wheels will be into negative $ territory.

You serious?

Either your vehicle is a fuel guzzler or you do a truckload of kms.

Last FY I did 25,133km & it cost me $2058 in PULP98. In the same period, my car dumped about $4k in value (2nd year of ownership).

At 2 months shy of 3 years I've done 70,457km & used $6,147 of PULP98 & dumped about $15k-$17k off the $32k purchase price.

I can live with the fuel cost - every litre is a litre of absolutely pleasurable motoring. The depreciation provides no enjoyment at all.