monkeyhanger wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 8:24 am
Mike: There's no appreciable fuel saving not being in Sport - lighter steering and a dulled throttle response, I wouldn't sweat leaving the car in Sport all the time.
yea, Its a DSG so I have noticed in sport mode the revs before gear change go up about 1000 rpm over the revs for normal. at low speeds pulling away is a lot quicker in sport. I think if the car was manual, you would be right because its me controlling the engine speed at gearchange, but in DSG its defiantly revving higher in sport mode. so that must burn more fuel. I think you right once you have pulled away the revs drop back to normal when cruising and idling.
Example. So in this POLO my way of dealing with the stutter when auto stop start kicks in and DSG allows you to pull away is to ...as I get to Alpha 1 on a busy junction, switch off the stop stat auto, go to sport mode, when I am defiantly Alpha 1 I start building the revs with the foot break on and as my target gap appears I let the breaks off whilst simultaneously putting the throttle to the floor and the little 115 hp engine does get the car moving fast, the rev counter reading 5,500RPM on gear change. it defiantly does seem to make an appreciable time difference to getting from 0-35/40mph.
Obviously I have only driven the car 500miles as of this morning, so im still learning the quirks of this new Polo and how to use the DSG (I was a manual guy). Every day I am learning more. I will keep an eye on the sport function to see if it is all in the mind or if there is a difference in pulling away speed, at this point in time I really think there is on the DSG.
Regarding MPG,
At the moment I necked the tank about a week ago so im driving in mixed modes in every day driving to see what MPG I get from a tank in the real world.
Next tank I will try all normal driving (NO sport or eco) & acclimate control left on all the time, then the same with climate control off all the time. Then the tank after I will go for eco then after that, sport only. I will report back on the MPG I actually get in each different Mode.