Hi all, great forum - hope you can help me

Just bought a '98 A3 1.8 Sport Automatic... really like it, runs smooth, drives nice, no apparent problems..

BUT

the petrol consumption is ridiculous.. £20 of regular unleaded (tank almost half full) got me about 50-60 miles driving sensibly around town?

Can that be right? I'm not entirely sure of the accuracy of my sums, but I worked this out to be about 17 mpg!! ???

Obviously i need to get this looked at but anyone got any tips/speculation what this could be? or is this normal??

 

Thats not too good. I would have expected 22 around town from an auto.
Whats it like on a run?
Auto's always use more fuel than a manual, in my experience by about 20%.

 

i used to have 1.6 auto petrol and i have had around 100 miles for a £20.