Advice on real world economy after remap and mods

[lush4]

Hey guys. I've been driving a polo 77tsi for the last 5 years and average about 6l/100. It has 160k and still going strong.

I've recently sold a heavily modified Megane that was a weekend car and trying to decide what's next.

I'm in 2 minds. I want an RS3 , my plan was to buy one do a remap, cooler, dump pipe ect . As a weekend car.

But I'm starting to consider a 2nd hard mk7 GTI in manual ( I can claim the daily on tax. Weekend car I can't) dump, cooler air intake and a remap.
Selling off the polo and using the GTI as a daily instead of having a weekend car that gets 5k a year.

So I am hoping someone has some long term fuel figures. I do give it too my cars but 80% of time I'm on the freeway or in traffic.

I'd love to have a fun daily again. Rather thank a quick car in the garage that looks good.

Any advice would be great.

Cheers. Mark.

[spellbound]

Hey guys. I've been driving a polo 77tsi for the last 5 years and average about 6l/100. It has 160k and still going strong.

I've recently sold a heavily modified Megane that was a weekend car and trying to decide what's next.

I'm in 2 minds. I want an RS3 , my plan was to buy one do a remap, cooler, dump pipe ect . As a weekend car.

But I'm starting to consider a 2nd hard mk7 GTI in manual ( I can claim the daily on tax. Weekend car I can't) dump, cooler air intake and a remap.
Selling off the polo and using the GTI as a daily instead of having a weekend car that gets 5k a year.

So I am hoping someone has some long term fuel figures. I do give it too my cars but 80% of time I'm on the freeway or in traffic.

I'd love to have a fun daily again. Rather thank a quick car in the garage that looks good.

Any advice would be great.

Cheers. Mark.

Hi Mark
Mk6 stage 1 city 9l per100km , rural 6.2l manual i like to push it

Mk7 city 8.4l , rural , 6.0l manual spirited driving at about 110kmh , again iam not economy minded , i could do better if i backed off .

Mk 7 is a great car .

[brad]

My EA888 1.8tsi definitely improved the fuel economy on the highway and in light flowing traffic with the remap (and several other mods).

In stop/start traffic it got worse and when giving it the beans. You can't change physics.

When I was doing 25,000km/yr fuel was still a very small part of my vehicle costs. Depreciation was much worse and insurance came 2nd.

Fuel is cheap in Australia and look at the joy it gives.

[Kachingg]

Remaps in flowing traffic and highways are really good on fuel in stop/start city driving not so much
My oil burner gets 7.3 average on the highway its 6.1 in heavy traffic its 9 to 10 ltr /100k
Would assume the petrol will act similar
Worth it in every way as far as i am concerned puts a smile on my face everyday

[flat6]

My MK7 R APR stage 1 gets around 9.8-11L / 100 in town stop start, highway with a bit of downhill I've seen this figure drop to as low as 7L (westgate inbound to the city with low traffic)

Usually the average is around 8.2 - 8.7 on the freeway, still freaking amazing figures for an AWD car with the same power as a V8

[Sharkie]

My 145TSI manual MK7.5 (stock 110TSI with OEM+ ECU tune) does 6.7l/100km in peak hour traffic (did the daily 35km round trip commute in it) and low 5s, high4s on the highway. It does 0-100 in about 6.6s and is a delight to drive. It's not only lighter on fuel than the diesels, but quicker too

Stock for now R is struggling to get less than 11l/100km on the same commute but it still needs to loosen up.

Tuned Amarok (with a MK6 GTI engine from the factory and APR tune) is actually a tiny bit heavier on fuel than stock, 8.2l/100km (vs 7.7l/100km) on the high way at 110.

[HAL 9000]

2014 Mk7 GTI manual, APR Stage 1 tune for approx 2 years, no noticeable change to fuel economy, approx 7.5L per 100Km, mostly city driving.