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Originally Posted by Rembrant
As I mentioned earlier, I'll be paying attention to your work.
I have an 03 VW TDI that I'm working on to be road ready in the spring. My goal is 65 MPG (imp)...hopefully without too much effort. I will lean out the IQ as much as I can, and play with the injection timing a bit. My plan is to also to swap in a taller 5th gear set and do some hypermiling work to see if 70-mpg (imp) is possible. Time will tell.
My curiosity is with the UK/euro model cars that weren't and still aren't available here in Canada. I see on the UK VW site, the new Polo with the BlueMotion 1.4 TDI is listed @ 91.1 MPG. Nothing even close to that here as far as I know. I have friends with brand new TDI's, and they're only getting 60 MPG (imp).
Anyway, like I said, I'll be following along with interest  .
Rem |
They don't get anywhere near the 91.1 MPG quoted. Euro manufacturers have gotten very good at playing the FE test, and now vastly inflate the numbers on many engines (best example being Fiat 500 TwinAir).
Real economy on the BluMotions is generally in the 60s.
Volkswagen Polo 2009 - Real MPGs | Honest John