I am wondering if it is mainly the car weight that is contributing to these poor fuel consumption numbers. Anyone here know how much the stock wheel weight numbers? Perhaps being an off road car they made the wheels exa strong so with the extra strength in them for off road they were made much heavier. I reckon that if they were quite heavy that would contribute to poor fuel economy numbers. They do feel heavy to me on the GTS Macan with the 21' wheels.

 

It's basically a combination of the engine high power/torque and overall car weight. The Macan is an incredibly powerful machine. It takes a lot of energy to achieve such a high power/torque on such a heavy load over a period of time. The more energy you consume, the more energy you need in terms of burning fuel. With Today's cars already reaching the limits of energy transfer efficiency, the more power you use, the more energy you need and that's fuel consumption. No way out of it, other than driving the car in more efficient way (low speed and acceleration).

 

A recent drive to the beach on flat Florida 2-lane roads in Comfort mode yielded amazing gas mileage. Check it out.

 

Wow ... downhill with a tail wind all the way?

I'm lucky if I can get 18L/100km = 13mpg.

 

I only have 2100 mi, but so far the mileage is crappy. 17-18, with a combination of highway and stop/go.

 

I did 16750 km (10410 M) until today with my Macan S, mainly on comfort mode, normal driving. My total average consumption is 12.8 l per 100 km or 18.4 MPG. Outside the cities I reach an average of 10.5 l per 100 km or 22.5 MPG. In the city, the average consumption is 16 l per 100 km or 14,8 MPG. I should say that I live in Istanbul, a city with quite very heavy traffic. Once, my consumption (record) in the city, bumper to bumper, exceeded 24 l per 100 km or 9,8 MPG.

 

My recent road trip to Canada and back to NYC yields 21.5mpg with the wife and I and light luggage. Driving mostly in comfort mode at 60-80mph. When in town driving it dips to 18mpg. Once back to NYC it average 13.5mpg. When in heavy traffic I shift to Sport+ mode to keep the gear low to prevent lugging the engine (use to manual trans). But when traffic open up you're immediately on the power to go.

 

First 12,000 miles yielded 17.4 mpg. Best tank was 21.4 mpg.

 

My wife and I recently drove round trip from Florida to the north Georgia mountains to visit friends for a weekend. Mostly flat Interstate driving in a combination of comfort and sport mode yielded better than expected gas mileage.

 

...tenderfoot.

 

Sitting at 22.4 mpg for our 2017 Macan S....granted due to med probs I was not driving her for the past couple of months but pretty stable over all on the MPG.

All of the drives are over 40 miles when taking to and from work and 95% highway, normal mode 90% of the time until I hit the on/off ramps or at a light for a few miles for "fun" and then go to Sport +

I track both the the computer and "pen and paper" backed up with Fuelio app.

Avg speed on the to and from work is 77 mph so trust me it is not sitting idle....granted these are mostly highway miles but better than the Jeep Liberty my wife and I had for years.

We "decided" to take the Macan to Dunkin' Donuts today for breakfast...with a 30 min stop at Lowes....Kept the engine running for the duration and still managed to get 22.1 mpg out of it...

Trying to let it just sit for a bit on a "Sunday Drive" before football today.

We did engage Sport + but not "Launch Control"....still haven't had an appropriate opportunity to do this just yet.....LOL....saving it for track days in the spring!

Just my 2 cents ..... hope this helps


PS....when the wife drives it on an 80 mile round trip to work it .... she did that when I was recovering from surgery, she managed to get on the computer 26 MPG.....I suppose she doesn't push it like it do .....LOL.....

EDIT...we are running the All Season Pirelli tires that were delivered on shipment so your mileage and habits may change the miles per gallon you get. 19" are what we are running and going to 18" for the winter in a week or two. BTW....my wife also ONLY drives in her "Key Setup" so her default is "Normal" mode 100% of the time...not certain if it matters.

 

Do the Fuelio results correlate with the car's computer? I've never touched anything near 26 - even with all highway driving. My Tahoe gets better mileage on the open road.

 

just completed a 197 mile round trip at 65 / 70 mph with air con on with 4 people and luggage, 42 mpg average, went over 53 at one point, up to 685 mile per tank at one stage shown on dash,

 

Nice. Which car was that?

 

Prius

 

14-15 MPG in the GTS, mostly city driving. That's by the Macan's own estimates, which for some reason feel generous to me, just as the range estimate (for city driving) does.

 

3lt S diesel, 2015 with 15000 miles

 

Impressive; I wasn't getting such good mileage with any of my two previous Audi A6 2.7 TDI sedan.

 

I checked today after about a bit more than 3000 kms driving. According to my GTS, I'm averaging 16mpg


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2806 miles now, almost all of it in town with a few trips on the highway for less than 40 miles. Lots of Sport mode driving, and some Sport Plus (20%). 20" Michelin All Season tires. 16.22 mpg average with the highest being 17.33 mpg and the lowest 15.44 mpg (first tank), 9 fill ups so far.

 

That's not bad at all based on your mix. I don't have SC but regular sport mode crushes my mileage. Interesting you note the tires; I've found I get a little better mileage on my 19" winter rims/tires than on my 20" summers. Lower rolling resistance and I just generally drive less aggressively knowing I'm on snow tires on narrower rims. Rider is smoother too.
Nowhere near as fun as the 20s though!

 

The reported figures are useless unless you indicate the method of calculation: trip computer or manual calculation. On my GTS the computer consistently reads 2-3 mpg higher than by manual calculation. Every car I have owned with a mileage calculator has yielded overstated fuel mileage. I don't think this is by accident.

 

December 2016 Summary:


total drive time: 58.07h
total distance: 2625
total fuel MPG: 22.4


Pen/paper calculation for the last 2 tanks were 22.3 mpg & 22.4 mpg, so the PCM measurement is fairly accurate.


Car has 19,000 miles.

 

Per my gas cubby app that I'm super diligent about accurately updating, after 6,000 miles, I am noticing 15.1 average MPG on our Macan Turbo.

 

1 week old Base Macan. So far in the week that I've had it after putting on about 450km of mostly city driving, the PCM is reporting 11.7 l/100km since I got it, which converts to 20.1 MPG. Of course, this being the first week, I've been pretty gentle with it and haven't used Sports Mode much yet. The worst day was when I had to sit in stop/go traffic for about an hour and I think it got up to over 15 l/100km that trip, about 15 MPG.

 

I'm averaging just over 23mpg - GTS model - 20 inch wheels - sport mode about 10% of the time. Hand calculated mpg matches PCM withing .1 mpg. 80% or more of my driving is highway at 75mph. I'm in Florida...

 

average over last 4900 miles is 42 mpg

 

average over 1100 miles is 25.7mpg, but it can easily hit 30mpg when I drive normally, especially on a phone. The best MPG so far is a 20miles highway/local mixed trip with 34mpg when I deliberately want to test how high it can go. BTW, it's a 2.0. I'm impressed that it beats my previous Mercedes Bluetech.

 

I have a 2017 base. I get about 26 mixed and up to 30+ on the road. This is off the Macan dash millage. I will check actual millage shortly. It seems to matter if i use top tier gas. If you do not know what that is, search the forum for "top tier gas"

 

I have a GTS and for the month of January I have been averaging 20.8 MPG.

This is according to my Automatic PRO OBD device.

 

We are getting about 23.5mpg combined, mostly in town. On a trip we saw 27mpg for a tank. I calculated the mileage by hand and found the trip computer is pretty accurate. I'm impressed with the 2.0T 4 cylinder. We came from a 2011 Q5 2.0T and this car is quicker and gets a mile or two better MPG.