What is the most fuel efficient commuter?

[Welshbeef]

MattHall91 said:

Eddh said:

Bicycle.

+1

Pretty lethal 6 months of the year and not possible to ride on motorway/dual carriageway so single carriageway which isn't unknown to have lots of potholes and idiot drivers who are unconsidered to cyclists.

[Dammit]

You'd have to triple my salary to get me to drive 120 miles/day, and even then I'd think twice about accepting.

[MattHall91]

Welshbeef said:

MattHall91 said:

Eddh said:

Bicycle.

+1

Pretty lethal 6 months of the year and not possible to ride on motorway/dual carriageway so single carriageway which isn't unknown to have lots of potholes and idiot drivers who are unconsidered to cyclists.

+1

[MattHall91]

Dammit said:

You'd have to triple my salary to get me to drive 120 miles/day, and even then I'd think twice about accepting.

Me too. Don't know why/how people do it for years on end

[Welshbeef]

Dammit said:

You'd have to triple my salary to get me to drive 120 miles/day, and even then I'd think twice about accepting.

Seriously? That's 1-1hr20min each way average is 40-45mins a day each way commute.

[Klippie]

Basically any VW group car with a PD 130 TDI 1.9 engine will give 45-50 mpg all day long, and be bullet proof with a very addictive turn of speed.

[MattHall91]

Rode in a Panamera E-Hybrid the other day. 45mpg and very quick.

Only £95k

[Welshbeef]

MattHall91 said:

Dammit said:

You'd have to triple my salary to get me to drive 120 miles/day, and even then I'd think twice about accepting.

Me too. Don't know why/how people do it for years on end

Have you ever tried it? If not you have no idea.

[MattHall91]

Welshbeef said:

MattHall91 said:

Dammit said:

You'd have to triple my salary to get me to drive 120 miles/day, and even then I'd think twice about accepting.

Me too. Don't know why/how people do it for years on end

Have you ever tried it? If not you have no idea.

Yep. Did it for 6 months then realised that I'm actually human.

[User33678888]

120 miles a day, 20 days a month is nearly 29k miles a year. You must be mad to consider doing that at speed in a small car. You want a 1.9 TDI VW or Skoda at your budget at requirements. The bigger the better for comfort. Passat or Octavia would do. But when you can get something like this ... http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Really considering several hours a day in a stbox? Not for me, ta.

[Welshbeef]

MattHall91 said:

Yep. Did it for 6 months then realised that I'm actually human.

Its 60-80mins each way v UK average of 40-45mins.
You leave a touch earlier thus missing all local congestion missing what exactly?

Where did you do this commute out of interest?
I've been doing it M4/M3/M25 & M40 - you must have an auto that's paramount, comfortable drivers seat, Bluetooth, sat nav & of late I love having built in Wide screen DVD so when stationary in terrible traffic I could watch Scarface or in the night garden to my hearts content.

[Who me ?]

cptsideways said:

Lupo/Arosa Tdi's are surprisingly good on the motorway & A2 Tdi's too though the ride is awful in A2's. Other option is a Fabia with the 1.4Tdi which are found in later years.

I can vouch for the Fabia 1.4TDi. The 3 pot little 1422 is not bad on motorways, EXCEPT it could do with an extra gear or overdrive.I've found it will keep going right up till it peaks,but anything over 3k revs is a bit noisy and thirsty. Radio excellent, seats are a bit soft for my liking

[MattHall91]

Welshbeef said:

MattHall91 said:

Yep. Did it for 6 months then realised that I'm actually human.

Its 60-80mins each way v UK average of 40-45mins.
You leave a touch earlier thus missing all local congestion missing what exactly?

Where did you do this commute out of interest?
I've been doing it M4/M3/M25 & M40 - you must have an auto that's paramount, comfortable drivers seat, Bluetooth, sat nav & of late I love having built in Wide screen DVD so when stationary in terrible traffic I could watch Scarface or in the night garden to my hearts content.

Used to commute Northampton to Falkirk.

[Welshbeef]

[quote=Who me ?]

I can vouch for the Fabia 1.4TDi. The 3 pot little 1422 is not bad on motorways, EXCEPT it could do with an extra gear or overdrive.I've found it will keep going right up till it peaks,but anything over 3k revs is a bit noisy and thirsty. Radio excellent, seats are a bit soft for my liking

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Lupo 3L LHD 96mpg combined on W reg cars held world record round the world ave mpg of 125mpg ish.
Magnesium alloys, has an electric internal heater as the engine takes so long to get hot as its not wasting energy thermally. Great aero bike width tyres very Eco set up auto. A superb car.

[cptsideways]

I can vouch for the Lupo 3L, I own one Also massively tall geared <3k at 100mph, this was a recent trip to the Alps & yes that 4.1L = 68.8 mpg at "about that speed" it also has a stupidly massive range of over 1200km if you brim & vent the tank.
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Dorset to Tignes on 33L of diesel ! it is epicly cheap to run.

Edited by cptsideways on Friday 6th March 22:54

Edited by cptsideways on Friday 6th March 22:56

[Esseesse]

Import a Lupo 3L or an A2 3L, so economical they're cool.

[Esseesse]

There's a Lupo 3L for sale here with a manual gearbox. Wonder what that's like.

http://www.gumtree.com/p/volkswagen/vw-lupo-3l-1.2...

[Rammy76]

You could easily have my Volvo S60 for that money!

Smooth 5 cylinder diesel that goes well, is very reliable and has the best seats and sound system of any car I've had. It seems made for motorway work really. The OBC states between 48 and 52 MPG on a run and it does genuinely seem quite economical.

I don't really need it any more unfortunately

[campermanj]

Mk4 golf tdi??? Awesome on fuel and will sell for more or less what you paid for it in 18 months

[Matttracker]

If you wanted a vag 2.0tdi you could get a seat alteas seem to be the cheapest with this engine.

I've got a 50ml commute each way and was thinking of an alfa 159 or a gt for a while until I can afford a brera.
The gt looks fantastic is a 1.9 and gets 45-50 I hear