Seeing you refer to the Hyundai i20 returning "more than 50mpg" I wondered if it has the same 1,248cc engine as our recently purchased i10. Our only disappointment with this excellent little car is the 45-47mpg we have been getting on my wife's 50 mile round trip commute (around 80% motorway) compared with a claimed 56.5mpg "combined" figure from the manufacturer. I am getting increasingly irritated by outrageous manufacturer mpg claims based on rolling road tests, which bear little relation to the real world. Are these figures independently verified and how do they account for wind resistance? You've said in your column before that we should really look at the "urban" figure for a realistic approximation of real world consumption. In a recent Auto Express group test (14/01/09) a 1.2 i20 managed just 29.7mpg compared to 36.0 from a Fiesta 1.25 Zetec. If the i20 has the same engine as our much smaller i10 its chances of topping 50mpg are simply nil. We are well pleased with our i10, my only reservation being poor paint finishing on internal panels (engine bay and tailgate opening). Let's hope it's been galvanized as we intend to keep it.