40 MPG Passat

snipped-for-privacy@frontiernet.net (D&LBusch) wrote in news:Z_7oi.12545$ snipped-for-privacy@news01.roc.ny:

Under what driving conditions?

My '02 GLS wagon with a 1.8T and automatic gets 35+ MPG when travelling cross-country, out of traffic.

If the weather and traffic are right, I'll get 25MPG on my daily 10 mile (each way) commute, which is 50-50 city streets and what passes for a highway.

In the dead of winter, I'll be lucky if I see 20MPG on the same drive.

Highway driving on various terrain. Some hills - I coast in neutral going downhill.

Jeez, I would expect you would at least turn the engine off going downhill. Sheesh.

Don't baby it, it'll catch up with you.

Nope. I'll let both of you find out if you keep your VWs long enough. All the talk in the world won't prove my contention. Has to be experienced. Probably won't happen though. Both of you will probably carbon out the engine internals with your games. Then, buy another vehicle. Dave