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Hi & Welcome proper.
From pics the car looks smart enough. Sport exclusive arch and rim kitted manuals even more a rarity. Heated wheel too plus the seats - briliant find........Nice spec other than abscene of comms pack.
I will be intersted to see what mpg returns you get driving to posted limits urban , mixed and motorway when its warmed up and assuming not in need of anything.
Thanks for pics - shame about the air freshener
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As requested here are some MPG figures. Gone through a couple of full tanks now.
Did a trip from Southampton to Leeds, around 240 miles each way. On the way up was stuck on cruise @70 and there must be about 30miles of 50mph average speed limits, so pretty steady going, and the computer clocked just over 47MPG :blink:
Return leg was on a Friday afternoon, wanting to avoid rush hour, I was not hanging about, although still had a stint of 50mph average limits, after which pushed on reasonably hard, nothing close to licence losing territory though. Average for the entire journey dropped to 43MPG. This was all motorway of course, and good summer temps of 20degC, would expect this to be ~15% worse in winter temps.
After resetting trip 2, around town, in traffic, with the odd spirited junction getaway, the computer settles off in the 33MPG region. So combined, it settles in the 37MPG region.
Again all of this is nice summer temperatures, and only going by what the on-board computer readings say, which based on one tank to tank fill up calculation, is around 10% too generous.
I am pleasantly surprised given the weight and power of the thing.
After driving my snappy little VAG 1.9PD TDI 4 pot though, the engine feels a bit slow to respond sometimes, maybe a bit too much flywheel.
All in all though, happy camper. Definitely a lovely place to be. For me nothing else comes remotely close for the money.
Never anthropomorphise computers. They hate that.