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However it seems I have been driving, perhaps uneconomically, for years it seems. (48 years?) Yes there are times when you will want to avoid an accident, get out of the way quickly or press on for something important. I don't want to be the snail then. However my learned behaviour from others and probably my dad was to get up to running speed by going quickly through the gears and into top.. that usually meant 3500 revs or higher in each gear to till reaching the appropriate speed... or similar style.
So.. I'm reading the Polo manual and it says you should go to 2nd gear 'as soon as you have moved off' and no more than 2000 rpm in each gear till reaching the desired running speed. This was a shock to my system. So I'm trying it and finding i have significantly better MPG (at least 10) with this same Polo than previously when I bought it and drove in my usual style. As the system can report live MPG I can see how low the MPG goes when pushing harder in lower gears only to find the engine has the torque to get me there in a higher gear with less fuel used.
To be fair to me.. (LOL) I don't think my old Mk1 escort 1100cc engine would do any of what this Polo does.. it only had four forward gears and you could never tootle around in 4th gear below 30mph.. it just didn't have the flexibility to do it. The Polo however will happily go down to 20mph or less in 5th and still pull away albeit gently.
So old dog, new trick. Loving the Polo TSi