S3 Miles Per Tank?

[Dan_G]

Just done a 105mile trip on motorway mostly with a 20 minute section of 50mph (camera enforced).

Car in Economy mode with cruise activated and no A/C at 72mph.

Returned an average of 38.9 mpg.

 

[Itguy]

Yours a manual dan or s-tronic and which fuel?

 

[Dan_G]

S Tronic with Shell V-Power Nitro.

Engine has done 1200 miles.

 

[Joetidman]

The thing is, often your mpg is governed more by the roads you drive and the time of day you drive than by how you drive. In my Scirocco, if I leave West London at 5pm on a weekday to drive to Hertfordshire, I'll be lucky to get 25mpg driving like a nun. If I leave at 9pm, I can drive like a div the whole way and get 30-35mpg!

So in summary my advice is...work from home more, and drive like a right spanner everywhere, and you get low fuel consumption overall and a big grin on your face


and points on your license


probably

 

[msdmjb]

The thing is, often your mpg is governed more by the roads you drive and the time of day you drive than by how you drive. In my Scirocco, if I leave West London at 5pm on a weekday to drive to Hertfordshire, I'll be lucky to get 25mpg driving like a nun. If I leave at 9pm, I can drive like a div the whole way and get 30-35mpg!

So in summary my advice is...work from home more, and drive like a right spanner everywhere, and you get low fuel consumption overall and a big grin on your face


and points on your license


probably

Totally right, all about carrying momentum. It is the effort in accelerating dead weight that really costs fuel rather than maintaining a higher top speed.........within reason

 

[Peeb]

That's interesting. I usually set mine at 70 so will try tomorrow at 60 and see how I get on. It sounds like that small additional speed could be quite detrimental to fuel consumption!

Makes a huge difference. I do the odd 4 hour run down to Melbourne. Dual lane motorway the whole way and ****** all traffic usually. With cruise on the needle at 120kph (116 kph on the sat nav) I get 33mpg (8.5 l/100 km). Pull the cruise back to 100kph and I get 43mpg (6.5 l/100km). That's in a Golf R, manual on Shell 98RON V Power. I haven't got my S3 yet.

Around town I get 23mpg.

 

[PilotAudi]

Just clocked up 1900 miles. Average from new 30.7 mpg. Worst 24.8 best 41.2. Amazed at the performance and economy. Usually fill up when down to 2/3 bars but reckon on a 55 litre tank 350 miles is likely.

 

[Dan_G]

Esso fuel only got me 36mpg on exactly the same run that I am up to 38mpg with Shell.

Which is ever so slightly interesting...

 

[PilotAudi]

Esso fuel only got me 36mpg on exactly the same run that I am up to 38mpg with Shell.

Which is ever so slightly interesting...

Average speed, wind direction, temperature, accuracy of calculation all factors which will impact +/- 5% is not an unreasonable variation and I would be cautious unless a larger sample of data is used.

 

[Ashmcblue]

Esso fuel only got me 36mpg on exactly the same run that I am up to 38mpg with Shell.

Which is ever so slightly interesting...

Was this a "super/nitro/marketing excersize type" fuel or standard unleaded?

I don't know what to put in mine when I get and if there actually is a cost benefit MPGwise.

The car is the car it's always going to have 300ps under my ownership so I am purely asking mpg here.

POWERRRR!!!! (Obligatory S3 statement)

 

[Itguy]

Simple - fill it with the highest RON fuel you can afford and it WILL return an increased MPG. Not by a massive amount but it will.

 

[Ashmcblue]

Simple - fill it with the highest RON fuel you can afford and it WILL return an increased MPG. Not by a massive amount but it will.

Which one is the highest?

 

[Itguy]

102 if you are at a race track (!) but on the high street both shell v power (99) and tesco momentum 99

 

[Ashmcblue]

102 if you are at a race track (!) but on the high street both shell v power (99) and tesco momentum 99

Thanks.

 

[Leeber]

I've done just under 700 miles since getting the car, filled up for the third time today. Trip counter showed 207 miles since the last fill up.