JAYT43 has a good point, I have now got 10k miles on my 8 month old 1.8, I have not reset the mpg counter for the last 3.5k, and it is showing 43mpg, most days I drive on the M4 and A34 and several trips from Swindon to Portsmouth including sitting in the Portsmouth summer traffic, and I reckon the consumption is very good, much better than I was expecting.
Keep it under 3500 revs when cruising, and limit the revs to 5500 during acceleration (unless you feel the need to let it howl, which it does now and again, especially on the slip road onto the motorway), and it hardly seems worth the extra £1000 for the diesel.
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