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MK7 R Fuel Economy
col:
If you're concerned about mpg when driving a golf gti, you're doing it all wrong ...
GrayMK5GTI:
--- Quote from: col on May 15, 2015, 10:20:15 pm ---If you're concerned about mpg when driving a golf gti, you're doing it all wrong ...
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I'm concerned about it when I'm following slow traffic on a busy motorway. I don't want to pay through the nose to sit in a golf whilst driving at the same pace as the diesel repmobiles. When I go out for a blast, as long as I'm getting around 20mpg I'm happy. . .
col:
Fair dues, I wasn't aiming my post at anyone in particular. Just amuses me to see people caring about the costs of fuel when driving a car of our type.
I don't like driving on motorways full stop though tbh. I more often than not try and find more driver friendly routes. I drove to Cardiff from Manchester the other evening, the only time I spent on a motorway was half an hour on the M56. Great drive and loved every minute, cost me a relative fortune but I couldn't have cared less ...
ub7rm:
Have to admit it amuses me to see comments along the lines of you shouldn't be worried about MPG driving a car like 'this' (insert various warm / hot cars in here). I think most people just want to make a purchase with their eyes open - official mpg figures are known to be unreliable.
To one person 20 mpg may be perfectly acceptable for the 5k miles they do a year. To another it would be madness. To one person 30 MPG might be acceptable for the 15k miles a year they do but to another not so much. You see the point - everyone has a budget and acceptance threshold - whats wrong with asking? Pretty stupid not to IMO.
garrardrj:
--- Quote from: ub7rm on May 17, 2015, 09:19:44 am ---Have to admit it amuses me to see comments along the lines of you shouldn't be worried about MPG driving a car like 'this' (insert various warm / hot cars in here). I think most people just want to make a purchase with their eyes open - official mpg figures are known to be unreliable.
To one person 20 mpg may be perfectly acceptable for the 5k miles they do a year. To another it would be madness. To one person 30 MPG might be acceptable for the 15k miles a year they do but to another not so much. You see the point - everyone has a budget and acceptance threshold - whats wrong with asking? Pretty stupid not to IMO.
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Exactly and mainly the reason i posted as the figures quoted are unrealisitic .
From my point of view i have a limited monthly income but quite alot of cash that was my pension lump sum i took 22 months ago and haven't touched it . The £30k odd purchase price is easily met but the running costs would come out of monthly budget , which wouldn't be many miles anyway but there is a balance to be had between performance and economy as far as £'s are concerned . Generally the newer the car the better the economy of the engine for the equivalent bhp . My ED30 never saw 34mpg however i drove it , but then some will say why am i bothered as i only do about 3000 miles a year .... Reason is that i have been a saver for 35 years of my 52 , it is difficult to start spending it :rolleye:
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