Fuel consumption for everyone!

[The_Hawk]

I see time and time again people talking about fuel consumptions of many many different vehicles so thought it might be a good idea if people use a common platform for measurement and comparison.

I recently noticed in Transporters signature he was using Fuelly so thought I would have a look see. It even has a VB coded link to put in your signature showing your fuel economy! (which is what I saw).

Fuelly | Share and Compare Real World MPG

Personally I use an app called AccuFuel on the iPhone and have done for years, conveniently it exports to csv which with a little fiddling it was easy enough to upload to Fuelly and present all my information for all to see.

The Hawk's VR6 (VW Golf) | Fuelly

It's a freebie, so sign up and post your link

[brad]

good idea but is there a way to make it show metric readouts?

I joined some German site a few years back - blowed if I can remeber the name - many of the the Briskoda folk use it & it shows in either mpg or l/100 or km/l

[Spyda]

I don't want to think about how much fuel I use.
The mk1 would use a full tank, about 40L, in 200-250km. So about 20L per 100km. Its obviously not set up correctly though.
The SS will do 500-550km to 70L so about 14L per 100km.

Ill give that Fuelly thing a go.

[Spyda]

good idea but is there a way to make it show metric readouts?

I joined some German site a few years back - blowed if I can remeber the name - many of the the Briskoda folk use it & it shows in either mpg or l/100 or km/l

Top left corner click metric

[brad]

Top left corner click metric

thx
Tunnel vision FTL!

[Peter Jones]

I win. My MK1 uses 1 litre per minute.

[Ben J]

signed up and ready to give it a try. now i just need to get the stupid car going again. hahah

[Jarred]

what's fuel economy?

[shakespeare]

what's fuel economy?

LOL Apparently it's important for some, I use a Citibank BP mastercard and the more 98 octane I buy the greater my 5% discount is

[mikinoz]

I win. My MK1 uses 1 litre per minute.

I think that is exceptional. Mine did that only when the fuel tank cracked!

[The_Hawk]

Nice work Pete

I added in Mrs Hawk's Dexter and am waiting for her counter to update properly (although it shows fine on the website).

[Rendog]

Hi I'm about to buy a Polo either a 77TSI or 66TDI roughly doing 100km's of freeway travel per day at about 100-110kmph. On paper there is only .5 of a litre difference in fuel consumption between them if this is the case then based on cost I'm leaning towards the 77TSI. Can anyone confirm this the real world performance.

Cheers Ren

[brad]

I drive a Skoda Octavia 1.8tsi about 75km motorway/10km suburbs daily. At the end of the motorway, I'm often down to 5.3L/100km. Motorway driving doesn't make huge differences in fuel consumption (our Calais used to get ~8L/100 on the motorway - 16L/100 around the suburbs).

For the sake of 0.5L/100 I'd be inclined to buy the vehicle you enjoy driving the most. Depreciation costs way more than fuel.

[Mountainman]

Depreciation costs way more than fuel.

OMG - I'm in trouble then. Last financial year I used $9700 of premium unleaded. A couple of more years of that and my wheels will be into negative $ territory.

[brad]

OMG - I'm in trouble then. Last financial year I used $9700 of premium unleaded. A couple of more years of that and my wheels will be into negative $ territory.

You serious?

Either your vehicle is a fuel guzzler or you do a truckload of kms.

Last FY I did 25,133km & it cost me $2058 in PULP98. In the same period, my car dumped about $4k in value (2nd year of ownership).

At 2 months shy of 3 years I've done 70,457km & used $6,147 of PULP98 & dumped about $15k-$17k off the $32k purchase price.

I can live with the fuel cost - every litre is a litre of absolutely pleasurable motoring. The depreciation provides no enjoyment at all.