I have no confidence in the value of Eco:drive. I find that the analysis of the data collected is very poor and inaccurate. I believe it is a big gimmick. Does anyone else share this concern?

I agree completely, its a crock of doo doo.

The mileage it collects is erratic, the values it uses are obscure and the cost of the travel is based on some petrol price on another planet.

Yuo can correct the petrol prices pretty easily.. its in a sqlite database on your PC, I posted about it a while back.

It's still a bit of a gimmick.. but at least a slightly closer to reality one.

It's alright, and there is some data to evaluate albeit from a skewed reference point, but and at least it will be the same reference.

I'm given up after 8 days in trying to beat anything more than 65 on my shortish (max 20 mile) journeys, up and down hills, in traffic around windy country roads. The big killer is the gear changes. What a load of s**t!

However, if you have few moments to compare identical journeys say once a week or if it's a commute, you can perhaps look at a trend over the weeks/months to see if there is any significant performance drop, or pre/post service etc, carrying passengers, ECO on ECO off.

Just saying, that's all..I'm not recommending it!

Can I get the data from my Abarth?

I think it's alright, I certainly am not taking it too seriously, to be honest the sales guy didn't really explain it and I wouldn't have bought, or even not bought, the car because of it, but if as a guide it helps me save a few bob and save the planet then great.

My rating is 66, I'm getting 5* for the gearchange (Not surprising as it's dualogic ) and 1.5* for acceleration, my average so far is (6.3l/100KM) 44.83MPG which is not so good but screwed by a couple of fast trips. Right now it's a new toy, perhaps in a couple of months I won't even bother with it.