FUEL CONSUMPTION Si4 / SD4 REAL LIFE NUMBERS

Hi

Can you guys with the cars in your hands lets us know what is the real consumption of these engines?

still trying to decide whether to go for noisy diesel or thirsty petrol

the question is how much worse the petrol is in real life

thanks

No1 the diesel is not noisy from the position that it matters - inside the cabin. It's almost inaudible once you are moving. BUT yes on the outside there is no mistaking what's under the bonnet of the SD4. SD4 real life mpg, after 2000 miles I'm getting 35-38mpg in normal driving (fast A roads, no commuter, very little city driving, some short trips about 5 miles to the next village) and 40+mpg pretty consistently on the motorway at 70

Tim, you are certainly putting some miles on it. 2000 in less than 3 weeks! 30k+ a year...

It's just so good to get in and drive Mark, and I don't use a car for work/ commuting or business those are all pleasure/leisure miles.............. just wait until I retire and can drive 365 days a year

I do quite a lot of relatively short trips. A couple of miles to the farm, the odd bit of town and the engine is very tight at the moment. I'm getting low thirties in the sd4 auto. I have read in one of the car mages that reviewed the si4 but included some off roaring that it achieved around 16 to the gallon...ouch.

As for refinement I would say that there is some unmistakeable clatter on start up but other than that or in kick down it is very refined. Cheers YT
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16 MPG?

LR must be joking ....if true
I get slightly better from an X5 4.4l that is 8 years old city driving
On a demo Si4 I saw on trip computer 15lts / 100 Km and was shocked ...............but I assumed it was because people doing test driving were very enthusiatsic about it

For the first time, I'm checking the fuel consumption on my Subaru Impreza WRX which the RRE is replacing so that I have something to benchmark the Si4 against. I would certainly hope it will not be worse. Figure so far: 27.4 mpg.

Mid thirties in my sd4 with 350 miles on the clock mainly with a mix of town trips and trips of 40 odd miles so not too bad!

Yeah I'm certainly hoping the Si4 is not substantially worse than my CLK 230K which the Evoque is replacing - the official figures would suggest they should be about on a par, with the Si4 being ever so slightly more frugal though I'm preparing for that not to be the case.

I typically get around high 20s / low 30s in the CLK depending on how much motorway driving I'm doing, and on longer motorway journeys I can even get into the high 30s and pretty much to the claimed official extra-urban 39mpg if I'm being really sensible and there's little traffic. I'm a little suspicious of the Si4's claimed extra urban figure of 40.9mpg given the real world results from our SD4 members though!

I cannot wait to leave the sub 20mpg club! It's a real grind these days with fuel prices, I'm going to save £5000+ a year on fuel.