polo fuel consumption

[VR32]

Just a comparison my r32 averages around 16 lt/100 and around the city it has gone up to around 23lt/100, considering buying a polo GTI

[leasaunce]

jst went around to wisemans ferry, did 6.5L/100km

[pixl]

Just a comparison my r32 averages around 16 lt/100 and around the city it has gone up to around 23lt/100, considering buying a polo GTI

And here I am thinking 9-11L/100 around the city was bad.

[JCM308]

I'm averaging 9.5-9.7 in city driving (07 Polo GTI).

[DubSteve]

My VR averages 14L\100kms

[Ralfi]

Just to add. I've done just over 500km in my GTI & average 8.5-9.0L/100km on my trips so far (combined Hwy/city).

Interesting to see if it changes over time as the car gets worn in, or when I change fuel types.

[mikepologti]

depends on how much fun i have. conservative = 7.5l/100kms, having fun around 12lts/100kms

[Piotr]

i have never averaged over 10 litres per 100 no matter how hard i try and i do try. driving to and from work average about 7.8 per 100

[seangti]

mid 7 to mid 8's depending on mix of highway and stop start. I do find these cars chew on fuel when leaning on the throttle so 10's shouldn't surprise if driving around town.

[barra240t]

Hi all,

I thought I'd try a little test with my GTi and drive it conservative on a full tank (which was quite painful!) to see what consumption I would get compared to what I would get driving it normal (normal meaning having a bit of fun!) After driving on a full tank quite conservative I didn't really get much of an improvement at all! I still got around 450-500km. So I will be going back to the old way I drove for sure!

[pixl]

I've been doing my own bit of testing for quite some time and I've found changing gears at 2700rpm gives me the best fuel economy. Much like barra240t, I've discovered driving conservatively (changes between 2000 and 2500rpm) vs spirited showed almost no discernible difference in consumption.

[jesum]

are both your cars chipped?

and what tyre pressures are you folks running on?

[GoLfMan]

fella's, I flog the living guts out of my TDI EVERYWHERE and get 6l/100km hahahaha

and I get a poorly 5.2-5.4/100 on the highway

[Blitzen]

Best I have seen with my GTI was 6.7L/100 on my run between Brisbane and Sydney.

[DarkCloudNebulae]

Hi Guys and Gals,
I have a newer Polo GTI bought late last year, after it had around 5000thou on it, it started getting figures around the 6-8l/100 mark.
From my fathers to my house (~ 2 hours, some suburbia and a lot of highway, from eastern melb to beyond western melb I can get (in both directions) ~ 6.3L/100 average (lowest I ever saw) with no A/C use... ~6.7 with A/C use. Driving from my house to my mums (~3.5-4hours into south western Vic) I normally see ~7.3 (no A/C)... given this has alot more stuffing around in little towns (oh and don't forget the required lead foot passing of those not doing the proper 100kms/h by GPS speed limit), and worse roads I can understand the increase. These were non-chipped figures. I don't know If I was lucky with my tune, or the newer cars are getting slightly better maps? I do run "economy" tire pressures (40+ on this car) as I have always done on my (limited collection of) cars... I am VERY happy with these figures as my previous car which was a 950kg hatchback from a cheaper brand from year2000 and used to get about 6.5-8L/100 depending on the AC usage and the direction of the wind!! The Polo seems to suffer less with wind, and A/C use, although I have had worse figure driving to mums when we have had 50-80km+ winds coming head on (not to mention having to dodge downed tree limbs and almost making the GF cry doing so!) (I swear her cornering is far scarier than my dodging!)
Long distance figures are helped Lots for me by the cruise too, I can't get those sort of figures with my foot...
During my work to home commuting (8kms) I still see ~8.5l/100 for the week... this might be due to the fact the car doesn't see any proper use as its only really warm by the time I get to work...

I recently tried a new method of driving also which someone had stated on the forums that they had seen demonstrated on VWs Germany site, which involves using very low RPM, and changing gears at ~2000rpm... I have noticed that more throttle can be used with similar fuel figures (although its not "faster") I tried this as they said VW recommends low RPM with WOT, where as I though I had been taught that WOT was BAD for fuel economy, but this was in regards to carbies... maybe EFI negates this...


My 2 cents
DCN