polo gt what mpg?

markR · Post by **markR** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:25 pm

what king of mpg do you guys get? or mile out of a tenner? as i'm tjinkin of getting a gt as my mk2 gti mpg isn't that great and new plans of saving some cash for a pulsar gtir in the near future. cheers mark. also what kind of price should i pay for one?

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:43 pm

In the 40's, mpg-wise.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:23 pm

Almost as good as the CLs, apparently*, according to someone who's been trying to convince me into swapping for one (and may yet succeed thanks to the rising cost of petrol)
... thanks to the MPi it might have been even better, but the close-ratio gearbox lets it down a bit. One with an 8P could be interesting.

So into the 60s if you take it really easy, more like 35-45 in daily use with you taking advantage of it's extra power where appropriate, or 45-55 if you resist the temptation to use the acceleration on every occasion.

* (heck, if you go by the manual, there's barely space for an american express card between the 5-speed CL and the GT, which is about 5% thirstier all over... and it just beats the 4-speed in all areas bar around town, where its even closer. Pretty close to the 1.0 even, again excepting town driving where there's a chasm... Though they claim the G40 has almost the same consumption as well, hmm, how unrealistic is that?

On the test track it may be true, but not in the hands of someone who's bought it for the performance!)

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:46 am

Yes its true the official figures for the polo GT are slightly better than the figures for the 1.3 CL and marginally worse than the 1.0. My best mpg from a near standard GT is 49mpg on a long journey and the best from my 1.4 GT has been around 45mpg (I have the economy gearbox to thank for that though really). When theyre running right you should expect mid-high 30s mpg minimum.

As for miles out of a tenner, the magic 100 is still achieveable at the moment just about, (in my case anyway) but the way the price of petrol is going...

amstrange1 · Post by **amstrange1** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:44 am

Yep, high 30s to 40mpg is realistic. With a week's worth of mixed driving in Yoof's GT I got bang on 40mpg, and even with balls out motorway thrashes it won't dip below 36mpg - which is far better than my CL ever managed.

metz · Post by **metz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:54 am

I get roughly 100 miles to a tenner and usually drive like i'm in the le mans. (optimax)

but if u want real mpg then dump the polo and buy a diesal astra estate..Â£5 to 100 miles.

and it feels so good going over speed ramps faster than 2mph.

MadManMike · Post by **MadManMike** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:17 pm

"feels so good going over speed ramps faster than 2mph"

You'd need a better reason than that to get me in a Diesel Astra

metz · Post by **metz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:34 pm

hahaha...i have been given one for 2 weeks, so the polo is on the drive while i hammer the astra.

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:38 pm

metz wrote:I get roughly 100 miles to a tenner and usually drive like i'm in the le mans. (optimax)

but if u want real mpg then dump the polo and buy a diesal astra estate..Â£5 to 100 miles.

and it feels so good going over speed ramps faster than 2mph.

Nah mate, you want a 205 diesel. I can get over 70 mpg out of the buggers

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:01 pm

hehe sounds like metz is appreciating the GM "magic carpet" ride

oh so good for smoothing out our terrible (and purposefully disfigured) road surfaces, but a bit crap for "competitive" driving, as you can't tell when it's about to let go....

even with it being ultra skittish in the wet, and limited to 50mph and 15bhp, it's something i've been appreciating again this week in the polo

i think i'm probably taking roundabouts 5mph faster than i was last week hehehe... as even though it's got less grip, i can feel where the rear or front tyres are starting to skitter and break free, and ease off the breakpoint a bit. In the astra its a bit of a gamble!
(and maybe also why the economy's better!)

but heck, 100 miles for a fiver, that's enough for me to shell to get a diesel conversion on the 'tray so it is. that and the benefits of biodiesel (there's so many fried-stuff takeaway outlets round here

)..

Oh and i'm impressed at getting 36 out of the GT on a constant hammer, i couldnt even get that out of the 1.0

metz · Post by **metz** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:33 pm

This astra aint any good in the wet either mark..all of a sudden the back end goes and your in major trouble.
Been pulling my mates ur quattro up a steap hill near his house today to see its towing capabilities.

almost burnt the clutch out when he put the brakes on but he soon let them off again when the little astra was pulling the quattro with the wheels locked up haha.

tommorow it has to pull a car trailer with the quattro on top all the way to chipping sodbury.

so if anyone sees a metalic green astra estate (l reg) with a big shiny ur quattro on a trailer then give us a wave

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:15 am

I'm impressed, i havent grown my nads big enough to risk making the rear end seriously step out on it yet, and that includes journeys with some REAL hard pounding on the straighter bits (eg 95+ down the aston distressway and actually feeling a 4-wheel slide coming on halfway through the big 90 degree turn on the really high overpass at the end ... it kept gripping, just, and if i wasn't so timid of the near-total lack of feel i'd probably have pushed harder and found myself unexpectedly airborne, sailing towards the acute ward of the childrens hospital).

Closest i got was a tiny tailslide on the country lane backroute that sidesteps the usual A453 carnage around nottingham, it's got a formula-1 worthy one-two double 90 degree S bend with some rather dodgy camber. Had some serious lean out of the VW suspension round there (power wasnt quite up to major shenanigans though, due to the wigglyness of the approach road, even in the wet), and I've seen a Saxo the wrong way round in a ditch there before. Tray decided it might want to join the Citroen, lucky that once again i'd bottled it on the approach and lifted off a little earlier than i might with less floaty suspension, so it was little more than a trouser-browning flutter rather than a drift that needed saving...

It do have some fat low-end torque though, thats for certain, even in petrol guise - can't imagine the grunt that diesel might have, even if the power was to peak at no more than 40hp

Why the heck are you driving that lump though? I know for a fact that the estate version is one heavy bastard with some major implications for the performance and the grip (having done a delivery round in one - a round that could have been easily - and far more quickly - done in a Smart). You must have good reason to go from a GT saloon to that... being "given it" hardly qualifies in my book

Like if i was given a Renault Kangoo or a Corsa, i'd sublet it to local chavvy learner kids

hardhitter · Post by **hardhitter** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:43 am

Stop changing the subject with boring diesels, what it is with you lot. Bloody obsessed with mpg

metz · Post by **metz** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 8:18 am

HAHA, sorry dan..your right we have gotten side tracked with these cloud puffing tractors...

Back to the mpg!!

mark heres on for you to work out 538 miles Â£43 of optimax @ 92.9p a litre (at the time)

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:11 am

I'll write the answer really small so he still has to work it out himself

52.28 mpg