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10th February 2012, 11:03 PM
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This is bonkers
Went to Birmingham and back today.
Filled up before I went, filled up when I got back. 270.4 Miles. 35.61 liters £50.17 Thats 7.84 Gallons in my book, or 34.48 MPG. This will include though fuel used by its webasto heater, and the idling I did this morning warming up and de-icing. Was playing with sports mode on the way there, but DIS showing over 41mpg on the way back over a 3 hour journey. Filled up when I got back, it said 775 miles left in the tank, and I wasnt taking it easy. Adaptive cruise all the way (you can drive more economically with your foot for sure) Sports mode by the way is very good on this..... Never played much with the sports mode on a turbo. The RS6 had it, but that had bags of power anyway. Sports mode on this diesel seems to hold it nicely in the turbo-driven range of the engine, makes it feel really quite spritely. It really does seem like this costs half as much to fuel as an S8 at the moment, although admittedly it doesnt sound as nice, but 99% of the time it goes plenty quick enough.... 
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11th February 2012, 12:27 AM
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Okay, I'm sold. I will go D3 diesel someday, but it needs to be specc'd like yours.
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11th February 2012, 08:18 AM
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Last Sunday I went to Reading to pickup engine undertray from Sergey (notorious) in A6 2.5TDI about 100 miles each way and did 44.2mpg driving there 70-80mph and it dropped to 42mpg driving back slightly faster and included being stuck on M1 doing 4 miles in 2 hours. That's on the DIS but actual should not be far off. I am sure IT's is off because of heater which I don't have.
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11th February 2012, 08:24 AM
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 If you get a diesel then it wont be long before you get a morgage and children 
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11th February 2012, 09:07 AM
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11th February 2012, 09:53 AM
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11th February 2012, 11:28 AM
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I could never afford newish cars when I was young so contented myself with Mk 2 Jags and onto XJ6s a bit later. Loved them but there was always something to fix  These young folks on her get it far too easy! 
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11th February 2012, 11:31 AM
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Doubt that Sloss - How much did you pay for your first house?
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11th February 2012, 02:56 PM
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£3,750 for a 3 bed semi in 1970.
Petrol was 4 gallons (20 litres) for a pound and some change. I was paid £1k a year - £20/week. Good money then. Aye, these were the days! Jaguar E Type was £1,800 new - nearly 2 years pay 
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