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I'm disappointed with the fuel consumption of my Mazda 6 Tourer 2.2 diesel. I never see better than about 44mpg on motorway runs (400 miles in a weekend), and only return 37mpg on town driving (which I...
There has been much talked about mpg figures for VW group. I have just leased a Skoda Octavia Estate 1.2 petrol auto. I had a 200 mile round trip to Cambridge via M25/M11 and got 49mpg. Another trip to...
My wife drives a 2011 Toyota Verso 2.0 D4D with 60k miles on the clock. My wife drives mainly short journeys of 10 miles with a couple of longer motorway trips every month. We average around 8000 miles...
I bought a new Land Rover Discover Sport in January. I've covered 3300 miles, but struggle to get anywhere near the official 53mpg. In fact, my average ecnomy is closer to 35mpg.
I want to buy a car with good real world fuel economy. I quite like the Mazda 6, Skoda Octavia and BMW 3 Series xDrive. Which would you recommend?
There are as yet no Real MPG figures for this car. I understand it's based on the Nissan Qashqai in terms of engines and chassis. The Qashqai models seem almost identical in Real MPG terms so is it reasonable...
I am considering buying a new Passat Estate especially given the new loyalty discount of £1000. However, I am confused. Presumably a new Passat Estate would have a Euro 6 compliant diesel engine which...
I have submitted the life-time petrol comsumption of our Ampera three times now (most recently, a few minutes ago), but it does not appear in your results (which are still showing only three submissions)....
I have a new Hyundai i20 1.1 CRDi Blue and am getting a miserly 60mpg with fairly careful driving. Your data for the i20 1.1 CDRi includes both the blue and non-blue models, so I'd like to either see the...
I would like to buy a new or nearly new petrol family estate or SUV - probably either a Volvo (V70 or V60) or Audi (A4 or Q5)- but all the good buys (and reasonable mpg)seem to be diesel. Are there any...
 

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