Or unlucky ? My best times are annoying people on the way to workIts a thirsty little fella. Loves drinking 98Ron. I'm lucky, I walk to work.
That's good info. It's easy to fall in to the trap of thinking, "hey this is a sporty car, and I didn't buy an S4 to worry about economy". This is a timely reminder that it's a multi-faceted car, and doesn't always need to be sporty. I might try something similar next month when I, Mrs Grumpy Old and the dog are cruising up ther A1 to Northumberland.One of the great things about the S4 is the different characteristics you can get with the ADS, including mpg.
Just recently I had a 290 mile trip coming up and not being in any great rush I thought I would try and see if I could improve on the 39.7mpg picture I posted a while ago. So in efficiency mode, on a mixture of motorways with some 50mph sections and some boring A roads, not breaking speed limits, only a few overtakes, after starting with a full tank I arrived with slightly less than half a tank left. Near the end the DIS trip average was showing 41.something but unfortunately dropped to 39.7 by the time I got a bit lost and parked up. So a car that is very economical when in old fart mode and not ridiculously thirsty when hooning around, like on my return trip!
One thing I've noticed is the average doesn't change by 0.1mpg increments but jumps every so often, eg from 39.7 to 40.3 to 40.9, and never showing an intermediate figure, so likely not totally accurate.
Managed this for the 18 mile journey to work today on rural A roads, a couple of slower town sections but mostly at 45-55mph behind other cars moving along decently but with no real opportunities to overtake. I'd have struggled to get that from my old 130i and I always thought that was very good on fuel considering it was a 270bhp 3L straight 6 so I'm very impressed, although the S4 certainly drinks more than the 130 when opened up. First tank with the car was around 25mpg, second one just under 28mpg measured from filling up rather than OBC whereas the 130 could easily average 30mpg+ over a tankful.
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You need Smooth FM to break 35mpg.35.3 mpg would have been helped by the fact you were listening to Radio 2, relaxing music allowing you to chill and let the world go by!
I'll be on Planet Rock, so about 20mpg then.Haha, only listen to it in the mornings with Chris Evans having suddenly felt about 10 years too old for Radio 1 when Chris Moyles left and it was re-aimed squarely at teenagers, the rest of the R2 shows aren't really my cup of tea.
Nice to see you've been running your new S4 in the 'right way'My average since collecting it is 18.2 according to the dis. Having said that, I have been having a lot of fun and it's all been either B roads or town work.
Wow, good effort. 295 is the most I've ever had from a tank.On a heafty run I've managed 8mpg and then a family 600miles to France I got about 38-42. I actually saw 375 out of a tank. Average is about 22-23mpg and 220-250miles
So I have yet to achieve 200 miles to a tank. I think it's actually thirstier than my old TVR! Town driving and plenty of B roads don't seem to encourage frugality!!
One slightly odd thing I'm noticing consistently is that the individual trip consumption ("mpg 1") that resets itself from every cold start journey isn't aligned with the longer term ("mpg 2") that I reset at every fill.
My 20 mile each way commute which is 99% of my driving over a tankful hardly ever shows below 31-32mpg by the time I arrive (and as shown above can be up to 35mpg) so logically the long term mpg should also be showing ~31-32mpg. However the long term "mpg 2" taken over the tank always seems to end up settling at no higher than 30mpg which is much closer to the brim to brim at-the-pump measurement of between 28mpg and 29mpg. So with my car at least, the individual trip mpg is around 3-4mpg optimistic whereas the longer term measurement is only 1-2mpg optimistic, but why there's be a discrepancy between the two I don't know because surely they should use the same fuel flow and distance figures from the ECU.
@scotty76 - Now those figures ARE funny!Official figures from the April 2014 brochure for your entertainment value:
Urban: 28mpg
Extra urban: 45.6mpg
Combined: 36.7mpg
Indeed. Did someone say "cheating emissions scandal"?@scotty76 - Now those figures ARE funny!
What have Audi done? Pulled some numbers out of a hat!
http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/vag-admit-cheating-diesel-emmissions.253242/page-2#post-2564381Indeed. Did someone say "cheating emissions scandal"?
Nimblybobs.They may as well scrap official figures referring to MPG's and make up some other unit of measurement. Nimblybobs....
My S4 does -
Urban: 60 nimblybobs
Extra urban: 100 nimblybobs
Combined: 80 nimblybobs
And everyone else does the same thing, so an M3 does 50 nimblybobs urban.
It's only given as a figure used for comparison and doesn't reflect real world values, at least they are transparent about that bit (unlike other things), although hide it in small print.
Nimblybobs.