RECKLESS ROAD wrote:man le-mans wrote:Everyone I’ve spoken to regarding the mpg is the mk8 isn’t as good as the mk7
last year on one of my deliveries sticking to 65mph I got just over 700 miles per tank out of my mk7 jumbo on a Scotland run (80 litre tank ) ,this year I got 680 miles per tank from my mk8 on the same run , one big difference is the new filler caps on a mk8 means you cant brim them , I think that's the difference, I do find that average mpg goes up if I don't use 6th gear on a motorway and stay in 5th at 70mph doing 2500 revs
There good figures i think i used to get 550 from a 115, 520 from a 140 , 490 from a 200, all Jumbos best one i had was a front wheel drive 140 euro 4 lwb & you could get that into the low 600s. Ive been driving a 314 euro6 Sprinter last few weeks & ive got from the last 3 fill ups, 655miles 86 litres, 644 94 litres & 668 90 litres the 644 was a Scottish run from Kent, its fitted with the 100 litre tank & is the 4.3 metre version