Genuinely amazed at how fuel efficient my Leon actually is!

[LeylandVCDS]

I'm absolutely gobsmacked after yesterday's run from Preston to just south of Birmingham - it's the first real long distance run I've done in this Leon, and cannot believe it did the 211 miles on just over 13 litres of fuel. £18.00 from full tank to full tank, averaging 73.7mpg. That was with the cruise set at 70mph on the motorway, properly keeping up with traffic elsewhere, and not driving like Miss Daisy. And they talk about dirty, inefficient diesels and how we should be going electric.....
71.0 mpg going south, 76.4mpg on the return - I really can't complain at that at all

 

[SuperV8]

Nice, i've had 70+ a couple times out of my 184 - but that was being 'careful' at more like 60mph on some long section of roadworks.

 

[Frostybear]

Funny enough I don't find my 1.6 tdi great on fuel, not compared to 70mpg anyway. I've done a couple of motorway runs, cruise control set to 120kph (75mph) and generally get from 50-55 mpg. I also fuel track and find the car is optimistic on fuel consumption by about 5-10%.

If I am very very careful I can get 70mpg, but only on roads where speed limit is 80kph...and it's painful slow granny driving

 

[LeylandVCDS]

Funny enough I don't find my 1.6 tdi great on fuel, not compared to 70mpg anyway. I've done a couple of motorway runs, cruise control set to 120kph (75mph) and generally get from 50-55 mpg. I also fuel track and find the car is optimistic on fuel consumption by about 5-10%.

If I am very very careful I can get 70mpg, but only on roads where speed limit is 80kph...and it's painful slow granny driving

This 2.0TDI DSG is certainly better than my previous (remapped to 140hp) 1.6TDI manual, even around town

 

[Mr Pig]

70mpg is pretty good. I only track our cars over a tank so mixed driving. Highest I saw from the 1.6 TDi was just over 60mpg. The 2.0TDi averages about 5mpg less.

 

[Glosphil]

Funny enough I don't find my 1.6 tdi great on fuel, not compared to 70mpg anyway. I've done a couple of motorway runs, cruise control set to 120kph (75mph) and generally get from 50-55 mpg. I also fuel track and find the car is optimistic on fuel consumption by about 5-10%.

If I am very very careful I can get 70mpg, but only on roads where speed limit is 80kph...and it's painful slow granny driving

I would have expected your car to have better mpg.

On a long motorway drive at 75mph my 2018 Lron 1.4TSi (150) FR shows 52-54mpg.