what do you all think? on a forum someone said that e gotr 77mpg on his octavia! cant be true surely.

I was thinking the new toyota 1.4 diesel. its capabale of doing 68 mpg!

what else?

 

Prius does 65 mpg

 

does it have the 1.4?

what about the 1.5 isuzu engines? or 1.7? theyre a bit old now though.

 

One of those Bluemotion polo's.

Or a Jag s-type

 

1.5 I think but with all the electric cell guff on top

 

on the golf gt tdi forums, there is a 800/900 and 1000 mpt (miles per tank) club...

I can get nearly 60mpg on a good run in my unmodded 110 gt tdi, but a chap at work has just had his gt tdi 130 remapped and says he gets 60mpg even when doing 90/100 down the motorway..

For the people getting 800+ to a tank, they need be averaging 80+mpg

Does a remap make that much difference?

 

clarkson did london to edinburgh and back on one tank in an audi. that was std.

 

new smart diesel is quite frugal

 

my van gets from blackpool to devon on half a tank, it only holds Ł35

and thats before we map it

our remaps can give up to 20% better fuel economy, depending on driving style

 

I got 51.0 over 416 miles, including Glasgow rush hour followed by a run to Milton Keynes in a Mercedes C220 Sport Auto and thought that was pretty good.

The smart diesel is officially the most efficient production car with 85mpg and 88g/km. The new version gets 9% more power (54hp!)

 

i got 440 miles from a tank of fuel from birmingham to cornwall and back. thats a 1.6 cvh turbo

 

I've got a Mk5 Golf GT 140, it's been mapped and it only just got 500 to the tank, and I hardly booted it! That right?

About 41mpg I think??

 

i think will is getting mid 50s from his remapped 150 tdi, now running 200bhp at 2 bar

 

Driven as if by the stig it did 43mpg average across the whole tank of fuel

Regularly creeps into the 50s on the motorway though

 

not bad cosidering the power now though lol...

may be even better now its not slipping the clutch pmsl

wonder what she would do on a real steady cruise long distance

 

I did 498 miles on half a tank of diesel in my passat tdi 2 months ago

Bora 130 tdi was 65mpg no problem with teh 6 speed box and i reckon i could easily hit 70 on a longer journey

Out of all dervs ive had Vw/Pugs have been the best for econemy and power

 

http://www.fuel-economy.co.uk/stats.shtml octavias not up there so an average of 77mpg sounds unlikely

 

Stu H - My Octavia tdi 110 (same engine as yours) was remapped and after being remapped the fuel computer used to over read quite a lot. My average fuel consumption used to be 55mpg before and after the remap (checked the old fashioned way by brim to brim/mileage checking) and prior to the map the computer was fairly accurate. After being mapped the computer used to regularly show 64-68mpg! in fact on the way to the ring in it, it was up to 80mpg at one point!!!

Some vag group cars are affected in this way, some aint i found out.

It did manage to do 35mpg on a 45 minute open pit lane session round Spa circuit in belgium as well, which wasnt bad!!!


Just to add, i got rid off the octavia and have now got a 406 hdi 2.0 LX 110bhp. That on this years spa trip did 975 miles on a tank of fuel with 45 miles still showing - and averaged 59.5mpg, and that was 3 up, full of luggage and red bull! (no track use this year though) - not bad for a 8 year old car with 130k on it.

 

600 miles per tank in my old shitybox Escort 1.8TD

Only costs Ł36 to fill too

 

I bet you could run that engine on anything as well?

 

It does run on anything - curently it has a mixture of biodiesel, cooking oil, a litre of petrol to keep it thin, and some creosote stuff that I found in the shed

 

Chuck some emulsion paint in, it'll make the smoke a pretty colour as well!!!

I know what you mean, a mate of mines old cavalier 1.7td used to love different fuels up it!

 

Not on mine it doesn't

 

Emulsion is water based Matt - I prefer Gloss, oil based

 

I can get 77mpg out of my diesel audi thats 12 years old, I just need to do 40mph in top gear to achieve it, lol

 

Show off!

 

Blimey thats amazing for half a tank! I managed to get not much over that on a full tank (62 litres) in a 1.8t passat! Think it was about 530 miles which was really good I thought.

 

I can get 80 miles to 20 quid in the cossie.Beat that lol.

 

Super fez does about 28-29 mpg easily but have sene it upto 37mpg once!!

it's a very fun 28-29 miles though not a ladyboy cruise at 80mph

 

OMG that's siq quote material

 

yeah, well i get 80miles on Ł80 in RX7 haha. although thats what it made for if ya get me.
cossy does 220miles on Ł60 roughly

but genuinly our 307HDI avgs about 58mpg when i drive it, and mrs gets 65 out of it and she aint that light footed. on motor way at 50 the little computer says were doing 80mpg

 

Me bros old seat alhambra 1.9td used to average 46, but his(wifes) 09 tourerag thingy a 3.0tdi only does 18mpg, but is auto and new.
On my old a series engined mini(1969) with a 12G295 I could get 60mpg at a steady 55mph.
Last friday I got 38.8 from the cossie, going from east anglia to scarborough and back.
tabetha

 

im sure ford claim over 70mpg in the eco range of fiesta's