Official Fuel Economy Thread (formerly Highway economy).

[Wynnston]

The biggest fuel economy factor after the way you drive it with the Tig is the fact that it's got the aerodynamic efficiency of a brick. On the open highway the fuel consumption figures are subpar in my opinion. I average around 8.4-9l/100km (APR STG1) driving at 110km/h most of the time. I certainly don't recommend this, but as a test I followed a friend very closely on a 250km trip on the open highway, he has a big landcruiser. Anyway, I topped off when we arrived at the destination and I achieved an average consumption of 6.5l/100km. I know when you decrease drag your fuel efficiency improves, but by that much! I have a friend with a 2.0TSI Q3 and he gets about 7.0L/100km real world and it's heavier. This is the sort of figures you expect out of the Tig but it's just not shaped correctly to achieve those numbers.

[tigger73]

Well today as an experiment I took the roof racks off and got 9.4 l/100 on a 600km trip just driving "normally". I don't think there's a big difference - perhaps a saving of 0.1-0.2 l/100 if you're lucky. Though the racks I have are pretty aero.


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