You are in Cally im in TX i spend around $80 to fill up my treg 05 v6. gas is around 3 dollars.

 

I have been getting much better mileage now that I live in a more rural area, 12-15 MPG opposed to 8-10 MPG in CA. I fill up every 6 days, between $65-75. ...sucks having to swipe debit card twice at pump every fill up. :-({|=

Edit: to add I just noticed you are in SF, I just moved from Fairfield and I thought the same thing..something must be wrong because I couldnt even achieve low teens for MPG. My Touareg HELLA eats gas

 

It all depends on your driving habits, your area/road types, speed, hard vs soft acceleration, etc. Price of fuel in your area also dictates how much you spend.

Personally, in my '05 V6, i can sometimes eek out 15mpg if I'm very cautious with the go pedal. Generally, I'm between 14.5-15 in town. (This is calculated using the miles driven divided by gallons to fill technique. The MFI readings are more optimistic than a motivational speaker on amphetamines.)

I just filled up this morning. I generally try not to run it down too low, but I ended up filling with 22.27 gallons of 91-proof, which covered 319 miles, for 14.3 mpg. Cost was over $73 @ $3.299 per gallon. If I run the tank down like this, I generally get 8 or 9 days out of it.

(The main reason this was lower than average was some low-range, high RPM romping in the mud on Friday. Since it rained, I had to practice my drifting/donut techniques before I head back home (Ohio) for Christmas. )

Matt

 

Thank you guy. This killing me because i used to live in downtown and pay just $20 week but now moving out o town because the rent it cheaper but have to pay more for the gas and I'm drive about 60 to 70 mph everyday 2 time. pay about 75 a week.

 

yeah well the touareg's a drunk..you're not alone in thinking it drinks too much.

I'm around $100/week. the good stuff here is $1.15/L ~$4.35/US Gallon.

 

yeah well the touareg's a drunk..you're not alone in thinking it drinks too much...

^^^^^^^:lol:^^^If I drank like the Treg I would be in rehab, AA and finally in a coffin!!!

I drive it like I stole it for a measly $120 per week. My budget is $300 though - more than that and it's time for an intervention...


BTW - where you guys finding 91 octane? Here in Florida we either have 87, 89 or 93. Must be a location thing?

 

That is normal. I get around 80$ per week driving like a grampa (no offense to elder people on the board). If I step it a little bit, it is around 100$ like nickm. Trust me, it was quite a shock for me also when I just got the Treg. (I had a Corolla before so imagine the big difference.) lol.

 

They cheap out in the west. We basically have 87, 89, and 91 in Vegas. Some places (Utah, Colorado) have 85, 88, and 91. Back in Ohio, we had 87, 89, 91, 93 and 94 depending on which station you went to.

Matt

 

I'm thinking I do alright even with the mud tires. lol I drive 51 miles one way which is 508 miles a week and spend about $72-$80 a fill-up every 300 miles +/- 50 miles. I've gotten as many as 460 miles on one tank and as little as 220. How does that work? LMAO I know!

 

I've gotten as many as 460 miles on one tank and as little as 220. How does that work? LMAO I know!

I think that depends on where you fill up. I have access to the BX gas station (military base commercial gas station) and I will get <250 miles before gas light. Same with Costco/Sams Club gas. With Cenex 94 Ot or Chevron 91 Ot I will hit over 300 before gas light. I'm not ballsey enough to put arco or any cheapo ghetto mart gas in my Touareg. I once filled up at a 76 station with the over 10% ethonal (not E85) and I got +/-250 before gas light, however NOTICALBE power differance. Not woth the extra $5/tank IMO.

 

We have 87, 89 and 93 in North Carolina as well. For what it's worth, I always have added a can of octane booster to every other tank of gas in my Passat even though I ran 93 all the time. It seemed to make a reasonable difference.

 

My right foot has something to do with it. This morning I sprinted up to 110mph and realized that I still had my mountain bike on the roof. Did I mention that it's mostly stop and go with a 5 mile strip of wide open interstate? I'm not mad about it. I try to stick with exxon or shell. no less than 91 octane. We've got 87, 89, 93 in Tennessee.

 

Just filled her up, gas was 3.15 for 93 octane, get between 11-12.5mpg all local driving.

 

Out here in San Diego, I am paying about $3.40/gal for 91. I get about 14mpg when I drive normal. I am dumping about $100 per week into the egg. I can't wait for the V6 TDI to come around so I can trade my V8 in get some real gas mileage.

 

This will make you feel better…

Here in the UK it is costing me about £100 Sterling (about $190US) every time I fill up at the moment.
Petrol/Gas is costing £4.75 ($8.98US) a gallon and Diesel is now £4.91 Sterling ($9.32US) a gallon.

Regards

Cass.

 

This will make you feel better…

Here in the UK it is costing me about £100 Sterling (about $190US) every time I fill up at the moment.
Petrol/Gas is costing £4.75 ($8.98US) a gallon and Diesel is now £4.91 Sterling ($9.32US) a gallon.

Regards

Cass.

Sure does make me feel better! I know we have it easy over here, my wife and I discussed this before and we wont seriously consider changing our driving habbits or vehicle until gas hits $6/gal.

 

Depending on the price of gas, I'm anywhere from $83 - $90/week.

 

Here in PA. its 2.85/gal 87 3.05/gal 93 at Costco wholesale

 

I must have a defective Treg from reading your posts. I average 17 with a combination of freeway/city street driving.

 

lucky i live 2 miles away from work so i spend about $70 every 2 weeks. thats because on weekends i drive to go out.

 

I was hoping the family SUV would be the best on gas when I bought it... I should have know better when I hit the gas and was charmed by the smooth power in such a heavy 4wd vehicle.

Yeap, 12 -14 miles per gallon is what I average.. city /high mix.

 

I average about $120 US per week in Diesel. Our prices are about $1.30 Us per Litre, treg takes 100 litres to fill.

 

I also have a V6 turbo diesel intercooled, and did a economy run lust weekend to our sons farm and return all country driving ... distance around 440 kilometers, fuel consumption 8.5litres per 100kilometers (australian or mpg ) 32mpg and sitting at around 55-60miles per hour or 90 kph, cant complain...... do u have v6 diesel in the states yet?????

 

I'd be doing about 10.3 litres per Hundred at that speed. By the way drove my Treg right around Australia in 06. Stayed at Albany for two days, took me 5 weeks all up and 23,000 klms. I was able to get bio diesel blend in WA but can't get it in eastern states ?

 

My MFI showes on avrage 16.5 MPG

 

Glad to find this thread. Just got from Germany my 2004 V8 gasoline, and after a couple of days driving, I was wondering if my Treg was a petrol-cholic as well. You see, I used to drive a 1.6 Renault Scenic (!) which was drinking much-much-much less, and ofcourse I will keep on driving my sweet leased Nissan Micra to go to work.

I'm from Greece and we use either 95 or 100 Octane and I'm using 95 for a start. I need 100+ Euros (Aprox 160$ ?) to fill it up. My consumption since start went down to 14 lt/100Km at the very best when I went to the highway, and showed temporarily up to 30 lt/100Km when driving in urban small roads. Of course all this has to be verified after long term driving.

 

I'm burning 16L/100km on my 2004 V8 Treg, I use 91 octane gasoline. Wondering if that fuel consumption is typically what the rest of the V8 owners are getting?

 

16L/100km is ~ 14.7mpg (US), which isn't too far off of normal depending on your driving, they are rated at 14MPG city/18MPG highway in a "perfect" world...

When I was on the stock size tires I averaged around 15 under mixed driving

 

I must be doing something wrong, on my last trip to Arizona from Vegas I averaged a bit over 20.
Normal around town driving will give us about 17