[Colin]

My car has only done 550 miles to date so my fuel consumption probably isn't representative as I am still being easy on it and haven't used excessive acceleration/braking. Journeys have consisted of a mix of semi-rural, some highway and outer urban areas, usually of about 20 miles. I'm made very few short journeys and no city use - apart from the initial drive home from the dealer. Average read out for each journey has been a low of 23.6 mpg to a high of 25.8 mpg (and my longest journey to date - about 60miles). Even though these figures suggest I'm pussy footing around compared with some S5 owners I'm still easily the quickest car on the road on any journey I've made in it around here. In an S5 it's too easy not to be!

 

[Colin]

I agree with you Ianhp1. Your comments are spot on. This thing is so effortlessly fast. Everywhere I go and every corner I take seems to be 15-20 kph higher than my previous car (a 330ci) but with so much less effort. I haven't smiled so much since I first drove the Lotus Elise I once owned, which unlike an S5, was useless for anything other than a sunday morning blast involving driving 100 miles as fast as possible to get back to where you started from! So considering what the S5 is capable of and the feeling of being cocooned in an environment that feels as if it was hewn from solid granite, the fuel consumption isn't that bad.