That's why I like my Volt, it's a genset on wheels with a simple engine.
I have enjoyed my TDI for over four years.
I find that difficult to believe. My A3 TDI gets avg 40 mpg, sometimes 39, in trips between Sac and Bay Area. I drive 75 to 85 mpg like the flow of traffic. I know trips down 5 to LA the flow of traffic is 80 minimum with 85 mph the median. How do you get 55 mpg without going 45 mph???
My wife has always commented that her Golf had more supportive seats than the JSW, so I offered to swap out the front seats before we turned in the Golf. Although as I looked at them, the seats in the Golf were much more disgusting than those in the JSW at half the mileage. Not saying that my wife is a pig but...
Unfortunately for us, the Audi A3 TDI can't match the VW's fuel consumption.
you can travel at a real world speed and get good mpgs if you drive with a lighter foot on takeoff and when going up a grade...
Great post
We're talking steady state highway driving people. None of the responses answered how it's possible for one 2.0 TDI to get 39 mpg while another TDI to get 54 mpg. I contend the 54 figure is gross exaggeration. No one can formulate that figure as possible unless driving 45 mph with a tail wind - maybe. Hopefully, in the right lane and somehow not endangering the rest of the highway. I throw the BS flag.Great post
My opinion is those who need a brake job in less than 100,000 miles, are over driving (wasting fuel) -- Each to his-her own
Who knows
When we still owned our 2000 TDI beetle, the mileage would vary by as much as 10 mpg a tank depending on if my wife or I was driving it. She tended to rev higher and drive it a little harder than I did. As for the CR diesels, I averaging just over 40 mpg lifetime and can get the mfd to show as high as mid 50s for cruising on the highway. I think the best pen and paper calculation I've pulled out the JSW has been around 44. I've seen numbers posted here and on Fuelly at 10 mpg better for those with a manual because the gearing is higher and there is less weight and power drag from the DSG.
Short of driving across the flat parts of the western US plains there are almost always areas where terrain is available to use as fuel. Saving fuel....
Best (& worst ) MPG to and from Stillwater was 60.1 -- and 55-ish -- at 5 MPH under the limit (and yes in the correct lane)
Since this thread has already been hopelessly hijacked...
A few years back, I was on the interstate in VA watching a prius do just that. Every downhill stretch he would fly past me and every uphill, I would cruise past him with cruise set at about 6 over posted limit. On one long decline, he went past me like I was standing still. Come up around the next curve and there he is, getting the blue light treatment. Don't ask why I know I can't afford to speed in VA.
That's why I rarely look at single tank calculations. I look at the overall miles per tank to see if something looks off, but typically talk about life time average mileage. Sure I have the best tank ever stories but if I'm trying to see what effects my mileage, like changing tires, I look at 5000 mile increments.
In theory, if we compare to constant 60 mph speed on flat terrain, going up a hill at, say, 45 mph will significantly reduce wind drag, though fuel consumption will increase due to the incline. Coasting at 70 or 75 mph downhill incurs no wind drag penalty since you're just using drag instead of brakes to keep the car from going 90 or 100 mph (depending on incline, of course). Ideally, for highest mpgs, you'd drive up a steep hill at 45 mph, then coast down a long, gradual hill at whatever speed the car will maintain.
I would have updated my 2003 TDI but now? Nope, cant do it... and Im gonna drive the snot out of my 2003 and smoke the crap out of the EPA... God I hate those bastards... Never did anything honestly ever.
Thanks to the CAS attorneys, FTC, EPA, CARB, etc., we are getting the BB (or) fix financial car situation of a life time.
But the difference between 2005 and present? Nothing but wasted taxpayers money. Nobody is arguing that a 1960's V8 gas guzzler has a bad effect on air quality.Right. Except the whole clean air and water thing.
Unless you look at actual data, that is.
Just fyi, my first two tanks in my new stop-sale '15 GSW are netting over 53 actual (not indicated) mpg. This is driving 5-10 mph over the speed limit throughout the tank. I use common-sense (not extreme hypermiling) techniques, like accelerating lightly and coasting in gear (I'm DSG, fyi, so D) to red lights and stop signs, always being mindful of other drivers. If I'm half a mile from a stop sign and there's a car behind me, I do not begin coasting like I normally would, as that would be extremely annoying to that driver. My goal is to never tick off other drivers. I go with the flow, draft off larger vehicles without dangerously tailgating, etc. No pulse and glides or wild exotic stuff. I am a very non-offensive driver, and not just in my mind like a Prius driver doing 54 mph in the center lane of the DC beltway.