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Old 01-04-2014, 12:29 PM   #7 (permalink)
Walbum
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Denmark
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Ulven - '02 VW Lupo 3L
90 day: 76.16 mpg (US)
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Hi Kach22i

The picture of the black one you got there is the lupo gti.. You can see that by the disc breaks it has on the back wheels. And the alloy wheel and the small cam back is also from a gti

And I think the picture of the blue one is a 1.4 gasoline version..
Look up lupo 3l

The type I have is a lupo3l the 3l stand for 3 liters 100 km that's 0,793 gallons for 62,13 us miles
It's listed as 77,62 mpg read about the 3l model in on the wiki page

From my introduction thread.

I daily commute 56 miles to work and home again. About half is 15% city and 35% country road and the other half is freeway. The first half have about 8 turns and 6 roundabouts ( we love roundabouts in Denmark ) I drive 49 mph on the country roads and speed down to 31 when I'm with in city limit. My driving stile is that I hit almost full throttle until I'm a few mph above posted speed and then I easy the throttle until I hit the desired speed and I settle the throttle there. I try to anticipate an approach to turns and roundabout ideling in neutral gear for about 1/4 mile before the turn if traffic allows it and when I get close I break with the engine and last hit the breaks if needed. I try to pass turns and roundabout with as high speed as possible within safety of myself and other traffic as I don't have to use all the energy getting to posted speed afterwards.
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On the freeway my speed is 68 mph. Half of the freeway only has 2 lanes so I have to over take trucks that are only allowed to drive 56 mph in Denmark. Speed in the outer lane usually 80 mph so I usually have to get to that speed in order to blend into the traffic. Also about 6 miles of the freeway is under construction going from 3 to 4 lanes and that makes traffic jams morning and afternoon doing rubberband driving as we call it.

This takes me an hour 15 minutes to an hour 30 mins depending on traffic
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