First road trip

alien

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Dec 22, 2009
Location
Arizona
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2010 Jetta Sportwagen DSG
We took our 2010JSW up to Flagstaff from Mesa, Arizona (a round trip of ~350 miles). Flagstaff is at an elevation of 7,000 feet, Mesa is at 1,000 feet, and there are some decent hills to climb. I must say that I was extremely impressed. Climbing hills was absolutely effortless, and the mpg looks fantastic. I don't know how linear the fuel gauge is, but the 350 miles came on little more than the half tank marking, with an estimated 290 mile range left. I'll probably do a fill tomorrow to see what we got. I note that the UK mpg figures quoted (noting the 20% difference in gallon size) are somewhat higher than the US mpg figures. I suspect I am getting better-than-EPA performance from the get-go (driving speed was around the limit (mostly 75 or 65) plus or minus 5). I'll post a figure once I've got it.
Overnight, it hit a low of around 9F. The car, left outside, was only very slightly hesitant to start first thing in the morning when it was in the low teens.
 

alien

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Joined
Dec 22, 2009
Location
Arizona
TDI
2010 Jetta Sportwagen DSG
OK. For this trip we got ~41mpg, which I am quite happy with. The mostly city driving for the previous fill-up (around 220 miles) gave us around 34mpg.
 

one69chev

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Nov 26, 2009
Location
Virginia
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none
i recently went from VA to Fl and averaged 41mpg also......my sister in law had to drive part of the way back and i think i may have converted her to the v-dub fold
 
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