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That's not my experience. I do 30k/yr and have had various diesels and petrols.
My last company car was a dreadful Passat 1.9tdi and that spent the majority of its life on full throttle (and a lot at high revs as it had a stupid 5 speed box) and it still managed over 40mpg over 50k miles.
I then had a Saab 2.0 petrol for a few months and drove at a similar pace (obviously driving it much less hard to achieve the same results) and got something like 25mpg over 20k.
My 325d I had long term before my current car got over 40mpg over its life, despite me driving it pretty hard. My wifes Qashqai petrol struggles to get in the 30's most of the time, driven the same way, despite a quoted 38mpg (I think)
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