I had a bluemotion on demo for a week and ........ it was nice, the car itself felt good, the power was lacking but then it would be next to the cupra. on short trips like 3 miles it averaged 50mpg and on what i would call a short run at sensible speeds it averaged 62mpg, that was a 10 mile round trip, fast motorway work saw an average of 51mpg where the cupra averages 29mpg over the same route. The car had only covered 500 miles so i would expect all the figures to increase by 3-4mpg.
How quick was it ... not very, its quite high geared so to get any go you do need to drop down a gear but its got enough go to keep up with the traffic. The engine was smooth and quite, road tax is £0 and the spec is ok. Would i buy one, well if saving the planet was a concern then yes, it makes much more sense than a prius ( which was rubbish ) in act i'm now moving our fleet from Ford to VW and they will all be getting Golfs. Will they be getting the Bluemotion ..... no, i've picked the Match 1.6TDi with bluemotion tech, it doesn't have the bodykit but does have more toys, RCD510, cruise,armrest, hi line etc and the bluemotion pack adds start stop, yes you have to pay road tax - £35 but otherwise its still next to nothing. So yes i'd buy one ... BUT to change from the cupra would cost me around £7000 and that buys a LOT of V power
