Hello from germany.

[Autobahnschleicher]

My plans are relatively conservative, so I'll be fine untill next inspection at least.
Currently just messing with some vortex generators and a grille block next.
And it's not like police is going around to check for flat undertrays or stuff like that.

[quentin]

40 MPG sounds pretty impressive to me, especially stock. Super cool little car!

[Zunigrijje]

Originally Posted by Autobahnschleicher

Hello from germany, the country of unlimited highway-speeds and expensive fuel.
I've been looking around in this forum before to save some fuel.
This has resulted in me archiving a record of 5,93L/100 km (40 mpg) in a Toyota MR-S (5-speed manual 1.8L 140PS DOHC VVL mid engine RWD) under not exactly ideal conditions.
Your EPA rates it at 22 city/27 highway/24 mixed, wich is rather easy to beat.
I hope to improve on my current record by learning a few more techniques as well as slightly modifying my car.
Sadly I can't do as much as some of you guys do or the Police and TÜV get angry...

Actually I always considered the fuel in Germany to be cheap: I lived at Kerkrade, next to the border with Herzogenrath and I almost exclusively filled up in Germany. Because the price difference with the Netherlands, used to be something like € 0,30 a litre for gasoline.

Since January this year, the German government however added a CO2 tax to the fuel of almost € 0,10 so every since tanking has gotten more expensive. But still cheaper than the Netherlands, and you can still get regular Super E5

[Autobahnschleicher]

Originally Posted by Zunigrijje

Actually I always considered the fuel in Germany to be cheap: I lived at Kerkrade, next to the border with Herzogenrath and I almost exclusively filled up in Germany. Because the price difference with the Netherlands, used to be something like € 0,30 a litre for gasoline.

Lol, I used to live in Aachen and Vaals for a while, often filled up in belgium because fuel was cheaper there...

[Zunigrijje]

Originally Posted by Autobahnschleicher

Lol, I used to live in Aachen and Vaals for a while, often filled up in belgium because fuel was cheaper there...

Now it is for sure cheaper in Belgium, no doubt about that

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Zunigrijje

I always considered the fuel in Germany to be cheap

A friend of mine has moved to Portugal IIRC in late 2017, then he went to Germany and finally settled in England. While in Portugal he used to see a lot of cars with 1.6L turbodiesels, he told me in Germany even a Skoda Octavia would be easier to find with a 2.0 TSI instead.