What MPG is everyone getting ? A3/S3

A3 8V 1.8TFSI Sportback. Logged fuel consumption for a year on fuelly.com. Much more accurate than OBC. See figure below average for the year to date.. Cost is 14.4p per mile in fuel at the moment. The best tank single tank I've ever managed is 43.7mpg.
 
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Having driven many types of AUDI and A3s : best was a 1.6 tdi dpf delete 55 @ steady 80 my 12 plate S3 best 29 @ 60. Don’t use super market fuel ️ especially with diesel


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PFL A3 saloon on 19’s, 150TDi Stronic 44mpg average over 12000k miles, good mix of all traffic.
 
Matchman54 said:
A3 8V 1.8TFSI Sportback. Logged fuel consumption for a year on fuelly.com. Much more accurate than OBC. See figure below average for the year to date.. Cost is 14.4p per mile in fuel at the moment. The best tank single tank I've ever managed is 43.7mpg.
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Interesting website “fuelly.com “


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A3 8V 1.8TFSI Sportback. Logged fuel consumption for a year on fuelly.com. Much more accurate than OBC. See figure below average for the year to date.. Cost is 14.4p per mile in fuel at the moment. The best tank single tank I've ever managed is 43.7mpg.
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My 8V 1.8tfsi averaged 42mpg on the OBC over 23k
The S3 is averaging 32mpg, but it gets driven much harder. The extra grip, traction, power, response, handling, noise, smell, fun, etc.etc is well worth the extra fuel consumption.
If you think these cars are thirsty you should have been driving in the 80s with good old Webber carbs. I had a Lancia 2.0 coupe that would only return 18-22mpg and a Mk2 XR2 with a Turbo Technics conversion that only did 21-25mpg. But they were both great fun cars to drive! Made my Dolly Sprint at 28mpg look frugal, but that was driven more carefully due to it overheating whenever it was really gunned.
 
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2017 S3 Stronic I get 43mpg in efficiency on a long motorway trip,
Having fun in Dynamic & manual to n from work 5 miles each way 19mpg. So all in all I'm happy with that :smiley:
 
Only had my 16 plate S3 a couple of months but getting 25-28 mpg for my commute (8 miles / 25mins usually) but my best so far was 37 mpg on a 180 mile trip a few motorways and then A roads.
 
Chris S 1245 said:
Owned My A3 2.0 Tdi 2014 for just over a month now. I can only seem to average 35/36 mpg max mixture of local driving and motorway. I do blast the car here and there occasionally. What MPG is everyone else getting Across the range in both A3’s and S3’s?
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Seems really low that mate.

Got the same engine as you and combined local and motorway averages about 55 - 60 mpg .
Seen it as high as 70mpg an hour long motorway drive sitting between 70 and 80mph.
 
Over a 60 min commute on the motorway doing 70ish i get between 55-60 with my 150 8v with Revo stage 1.
 
Matt Titanium said:
My 8V 1.8tfsi averaged 42mpg on the OBC over 23k
The S3 is averaging 32mpg, but it gets driven much harder. The extra grip, traction, power, response, handling, noise, smell, fun, etc.etc is well worth the extra fuel consumption.
If you think these cars are thirsty you should have been driving in the 80s with good old Webber carbs. I had a Lancia 2.0 coupe that would only return 18-22mpg and a Mk2 XR2 with a Turbo Technics conversion that only did 21-25mpg. But they were both great fun cars to drive! Made my Dolly Sprint at 28mpg look frugal, but that was driven more carefully due to it overheating whenever it was really gunned.
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Ahh the good old days!! My lotus cortina and E type thirsty but sounded great


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My A3 gives me high 50s to and from work, roughly 200 miles per week on half a tank give or take depending on the weight of my right foot, on a long journey ive seen it hit nearly 70, 2.0l TDI 140 BKD. But this is going by what the trip computer says in my car apparently these are not that accurate and nothing really to go on though.

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Matt Titanium said:
My 8V 1.8tfsi averaged 42mpg on the OBC over 23k
The S3 is averaging 32mpg, but it gets driven much harder. The extra grip, traction, power, response, handling, noise, smell, fun, etc.etc is well worth the extra fuel consumption.
If you think these cars are thirsty you should have been driving in the 80s with good old Webber carbs. I had a Lancia 2.0 coupe that would only return 18-22mpg and a Mk2 XR2 with a Turbo Technics conversion that only did 21-25mpg. But they were both great fun cars to drive! Made my Dolly Sprint at 28mpg look frugal, but that was driven more carefully due to it overheating whenever it was really gunned.
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My my15 S3, gets a lot of stop-start city driving and averages 20mpg. My old V8 which had the smell, noise and fun in the same conditions averaged 12-14 mpg. The S3 is a very technically competent and fuel efficient way of getting from point A to point B (really fast), but noise and fun ?
 
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My my15 S3, gets a lot of stop-start city driving and averages 20mpg. My old V8 which had the smell, noise and fun in the same conditions averaged 12-14 mpg. The S3 is a very technically competent and fuel efficient way of getting from point A to point B (really fast), but noise and fun ?
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It is to me compared to a PFL A3 1.8tfsi FWD Sport.
 
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it's all relative :)
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How true.
I've liked and owned sports and performance cars since I was 19. I suppose some of my past cars ( TR7 with a Peco exhaust or TVR 350i with a V8 Rover Vitesse engine) could be described as loud or fun but some these were truly awful cars, especially the TVR.
I don't want a slammed "individual" car covered in body kits, roof spoiler, Carlos Fandango wheels and a lairy paint job, or to spend my time intentionally or otherwise "drifting" it around roundabouts and country lanes.
I'm in my 50s, but not ready for a pensioner coloured Honda Jazz just yet. To me the S3 is fun and safe enough to drive fast with tech to keep me out of trouble if my reactions aren't quite what they were 30 years ago, sounds nice but is subtle enough to arrive in and get out of without people laughing and thinking I'm an old bloke with a mid life crisis sports car.

But back to the original point, the S3 is seen as thirsty, but in reality returns better fuel economy than a Fiesta or Mini did 20 years ago.
 
My S3 saloon will be 3 years old at the end of this week .. 12,000 miles and already due an MOT - unbelievable!

My contention has always been that you don't buy an S3 to watch the fuel consumption .. just drive it and enjoy it. As it happens, my wife is usually sitting next to me and she hates speed, so for the most part I'm not caning the engine at all, just on short inclines when the road ahead is clear (I tell her it does the engine good to 'clear its throat' occasionally!)

However, to address the OP's question, I regularly return 26-30 mpg. The best was 34 and the worst was 21 (I keep a log of every fill-up). MPG really does depend on the sort of journeys one undertakes on a regular basis which, in my case as I'm retired, tend to be short runs back and forth to town for shopping, or meeting up with friends in local villages for lunch, etc. Longer journeys involving motorways are really quite infrequent these days.
 
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2016 pre-facelift A3 2.0 TDI. Trip from Midlands to Northumberland last week, around 240 miles. Averaged just over 60mpg on M1 and A1.
 
I’ve got a FL 2017 A3 1.4TFSI and hitting about 28-34MPG In ECO mode recently at 6000 miles on the clock. Nothings changed in my driving style when I used to get high 40’s low 50’s mpg just in comfort mode. Anyone seen this issue?


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I’ve got a FL 2017 A3 1.4TFSI and hitting about 28-34MPG In ECO mode recently at 6000 miles on the clock. Nothings changed in my driving style when I used to get high 40’s low 50’s mpg just in comfort mode. Anyone seen this issue?


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Very likely it is the change in weather. Takes a lot longer for car to fully heat up and run at optimum for decent mpg.
 
My cars just 1100 miles average 31 mpg and that's mostly done on dual carriageways and motorways
 
A3 S-line 150 DTI quattro getting around 44mpg normal running around and around 49mpg on a steady run. That's calculated fill to fill not on board computer.
 
Just checked on fulley.com what my A3 2L Diesel 150PS 64 plate got.

42.7mpg average over 19100 miles. I only ever got upto 60 mpg like once and would even be happy with 50mpg for a motorway type journey.
 
oli356 said:
Just checked on fulley.com what my A3 2L Diesel 150PS 64 plate got.

42.7mpg average over 19100 miles. I only ever got upto 60 mpg like once and would even be happy with 50mpg for a motorway type journey.
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That sounds a bit high for a diesel to be honest. I'd expect at least 50mpg long term from a 2L powerplant.
 
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That sounds a bit high for a diesel to be honest. I'd expect at least 50mpg long term from a 2L powerplant.
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Take it you mean a bit low..? I always expected a bit more. My commute is only 8 miles each way though in stop/start traffic so that didn't help and hence low 40s was normal for that kind of trip for me.
Ahh well.. I have the S3 now anyway so even worse :D
 
oli356 said:
Take it you mean a bit low..? I always expected a bit more. My commute is only 8 miles each way though in stop/start traffic so that didn't help and hence low 40s was normal for that kind of trip for me.
Ahh well.. I have the S3 now anyway so even worse :D
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Yeah I meant low, haha! Here we measure economy in L/100km so my brain switched. :D
 
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Managed to get 64.5 mpg on a 120 mile motorway trip at the weekend - FL A3 1.4 COD Sport saloon.
 
Had my 17 plate A3 s-line 1.4 TFSI CoD from new in March. 9.5k miles and OBC says average 53 mpg over those 9.5k miles. Best every journey was about 74mpg from cold start to office, 40 miles. 95% of my journey is motorway and I have cruised along (mostly) with a very light right foot!!
 
Was exchanging MPG horror stories with the boss and his wife at the office party last night. He drives an F-Type and she has a Macan Turbo :)
 
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The best tank single tank I've ever managed is 43.7mpg.
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Same car as me and my best ever full tank was.....also 43.7mpg! Currently on my first tank after a remap...... Morrisons fuel (it was 10p off a litre so I couldn't turn it down! Usually stick to Shell, BP or Esso) and I'm on for my worst ever tank! I know it's partly down to me 'testing' the remap performance, but I'm hoping it's also down to quite a few short trips and crap weather as I haven't actually given it the beans that often!

For info (seeing as the thread is about mpg), I had a mk3 Leon 184 FR (so same engine as the 2.0 diesel 184 A3 I think?) and I averaged 59.9mpg over 9984. Most of that was motorway driving, and I very much tried to get as good a mileage as I could out of every tank!
 
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