best cars for beating official MPG figures.

[StevieB]

Did 45 miles today of mixed driving, biggest proportion was cross country on an A road into salisbury city centre, detoured on way home down country lanes to drop daughter at sleepover, then, stopped at McDonalds etc before returning home and got 39.7 MPG overall on the trip computer. Official average is 34.4 MPG. In fact on anything other than short trips I usually beat 34.4. My car is a trusty old 20 valve 1.8T engined Passat...

A stark comparison with a what car article this month demonstrating how far short most new cars are falling of the fictitious GOVT figs.

Anyone else got a car that often beats the GOVT combined figure? Is it me, or do older cars seem to do better on this than the new ones? Perhaps they were more honest in the days before C02 emissions rather than 0-60 times sold every day cars?

[bencollins4]

Our Clio 182 always betters it's 35ish average on a run of 10 miles or more out of town.

I've seen 43 mpg on a 70 mph motorway run. Having said that, this is all according to the OBC.

[Bhuvsta]

My CTR returns 4mpg more than the official combined. You have to drive it quite sedately though, which is quite easy in rush hour traffic.

Edited by Bhuvsta on Saturday 5th May 20:01

[paulmoonraker]

My old STi returned 34MPG on a run at 80 MPH nobody in the scooby section believed me, but it was true... It had been mapped for more power too!