GT Sport tdi fuel economy

[bmwrider]

Just got back from a trip to Wagga, drove the freeway without the cruise on
took the back road from Gundagai and my trip computer showed 850 km
traveled with 190 km to empty when I refilled it took 50 litres, the car only
has 2500 kms on the clock. Huge difference to my 5 litre commodore

[orsegtsport]

Just got back from a trip to Wagga, drove the freeway without the cruise on
took the back road from Gundagai and my trip computer showed 850 km
traveled with 190 km to empty when I refilled it took 50 litres, the car only
has 2500 kms on the clock. Huge difference to my 5 litre commodore

That's pretty good, and no doubt at least twice as efficient as your old V8. Although 5.8 l / 100km isn't anything special as far as turbo diesel's are concerned, and I reckon it will be possible to get the GT Sport TDI down to around 5.0l / 100 km on a long run.

I have just refilled too after 830 km and discovered that my trip computer is a tad optimistic. It was indicating 5.7l / 100km, but when I did the calculation myself (it used 52 litres), it worked out at only 6.2 l /100km. Still, considering all the city driving I had done on the tank, it's not too bad. I'll do a long country run soon and let you know what I get.

[neil]

Just got back from a trip to Wagga, drove the freeway without the cruise on
took the back road from Gundagai and my trip computer showed 850 km
traveled with 190 km to empty when I refilled it took 50 litres, the car only
has 2500 kms on the clock. Huge difference to my 5 litre commodore

Not a bad figure 5.8 ,but you can do better.

[bmwrider]

Not a bad figure 5.8 ,but you can do better.

I'm told it will do much better after its run in properly, that figure also includes
a bit of a high speed run along a back road, just to see if there was any
spiders living in it.

[Logzy]

Huge difference to my 5 litre commodore

Probably quicker too if the 5l commodore was stock standard.

Just out of interest what l/100km were you getting from the commodore?, or was it on LPG.

[GermanwithaVdub]

I'm told it will do much better after its run in properly, that figure also includes
a bit of a high speed run along a back road, just to see if there was any
spiders living in it.

50000km's to run in a diesel ... so its gonna get better for a while id say

[95vr6]

I think more like 100000k's on my T5

[bmwrider]

Probably quicker too if the 5l commodore was stock standard.

Just out of interest what l/100km were you getting from the commodore?, or was it on LPG.

Don't know I never worked it out because I'm mathematically challenged, and it
was to early a model to have a trip computer, ( VR ex Highway Patrol )

[Lima]

Just got back from a trip to Wagga, drove the freeway without the cruise on
took the back road from Gundagai and my trip computer showed 850 km
traveled with 190 km to empty when I refilled it took 50 litres, the car only
has 2500 kms on the clock. Huge difference to my 5 litre commodore

Nice one.