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Should our Skoda Fabia return lower MPG than our Octavia?

For nine years we drove a Skoda Octavia 1.9TDIs. We downsized to a Fabia 1.6TDI expecting to get increased mpg but have been sadly disappointed. The Octavia usually averaged 52-54mpg and sometimes almost 60. We have never achieved these figures in the Fabia and during one test, full tank to full tank on motorways and A-roads, it returned 47mpg. Is this normal for this model or should we achieve more than this? Skoda garages and Skoda technical staff blame our driving.

Asked on 3 October 2012 by SB, Stirling

Answered by Honest John
See www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/ for what real people are getting from real cars in the real world, rather than what EC lab tests produce.

Real MPG enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.

Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average automatically adjusts to reflect it.

Real MPG
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