Any 1.4 owners? MPG?

[mkc]

Hi, Ive ordered a 1.4 Avant, Daytona Grey Black Edition with the comfort kit, camera, B&O, hill assist and the thing where the boot opens by waving your foot underneath it etc. Should be here sometime in Feb.
My question is related to the MPG, the official figures say a touch under 50mpg. How close is this to real world? Ive had recently a 1.8T 160bhp B8 and currently have a a 2.0 NA B6. Part of the man maths around this was that I should see better mpg with a newer car, albeit smaller engine. 99% of my driving is on the motorway so I assumed that if I took advantage of the driving aids, cruise etc and sat in 6th gear I should get fairly close to the 50mpg which will be much better than the high to mid 30s I get on my B6.

Does anyone have a 1.4 and can feed back on the mpg please? I do 400 miles a month to and from work and spending about £260 a month of fuel....could I see my outgoings reduced? I know I should've gone for the diesel I guess but by the time you add some useful kit and pay extra for the avant which I need Im not convinced I would've seen a huge return saved on fuel.

Thanks

[Thriftmeister]

Hi
Great sounding package there, lots of toys. I think too many of us are too focussed on MPG. How can your monthlies reduce when you only spend £260 on fuel and you are buying a brand new car? The new car will lose 150% of that every month for the first year in depreciation alone - minimum!

Man maths at work again I suppose.

Anyway, to try to help with your question, although it may not be totally relevant, Mrs T has a Golf 1.4 GT TSI ACT in DSG form. It is supposed to do 60.1 mpg combined and we see 45-50 all the time, sometimes up to 53mpg on long motorway trips

[PAGolding]

I saw this on another forum, in case it helps. 1.4 MPG Dissapointing | Audi-Sport.net

[Graham Snelson]

Ive got a 1.4 sport which bought to replace a a6 le mans avant thinking the mpg would be better. Well I can confirm it's exactly the same 36 around town and about 43 on a run rubbish really.

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[spartacus 68]

I do 400 miles a month to and from work and spending about £260 a month of fuel....could I see my outgoings reduced? I know I should've gone for the diesel I guess but by the time you add some useful kit and pay extra for the avant which I need Im not convinced I would've seen a huge return saved on fuel.

£260 a month on fuel for 400 miles? What are you doing, driving with the handbrake on? A 2.0 TDI Quattro (177bhp) will achieve just under 500 miles on a full tank of diesel at this time of year, which us about £65 last time I looked. Come the summer you could even squeeze 530 miles out of it.

It's not just about fuel consumption, but £260 does seem excessive. On the plus side you should see your road tax reduce.

Think the A4 Avant is just too heavy to be powered with a 1.4 petrol engine. Anyway, enjoy it, the toys sound good.

[spellsinger]

£260 a month on fuel for 400 miles? ...

Assuming (for ease of calculation) that the £260 usage leaves an empty tank and at around £1.20 per litre that equals approx 8.5 mpg . . .

[mkc]

Assuming (for ease of calculation) that the £260 usage leaves an empty tank and at around £1.20 per litre that equals approx 8.5 mpg . . .

I ment a week, 400 a week! But this is in my old b6 non turbo 2.0. That car has now been scrapped and Ive bought a mk4 golf 1.9tdi 130 bhp to seem through the few months between the a4 breaking and the new one being delivered. I now have a build week 5 and it starts 29th Jan according to the youraudi portal.

[spellsinger]

I ment a week, 400 a week! But this is in my old b6 non turbo 2.0...

Are we still talking 400 miles - because that's now about 5.5 mpg? Which is impressively low.

[mkc]

Are we still talking 400 miles - because that's now about 5.5 mpg? Which is impressively low.

Let me start again. I spent £50 a week on petrol which covered my 400 miles a week to get to and from work. So £200 on 1600 miles a month or there abouts. £50 at 1.20 a litre is 41.6 litres.
41.6 litres / 4.5 litres in a gallon = 9.2 gallons
400 miles / 9.2 gallons = 43mpg


Will he 1.4 give me more than that?

[jsmills83]

Nice spec on the new car... I’m thinking you might have been better reducing spec and getting a diesel...

36 is my average early 40s on a run. 50 is achievable but you’d have to be very very focused to achieve it. Mine is 1.4 sport saloon so I think your Avant and bigger black edition wheels will hurt that mpg further by a mpg or 2.