Herts Hillhopper said:

You can see it here, in the centre of this image from the car's instruction book... only one arrow will appear at a time (page 37 of the book, and the RHD version from the very back of the book, which shows the symbols in slightly different places for some reason!)
Incidentally, if you press the 'trip' bottom on the end of the wiper stalk, you can scroll through various bits of info that get shown on the top line (where the date is in the image below). One is instantaneous fuel consumption which will show you when the car is using the fuel most.

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Thanks for that.

Finally tried ECO mode properly in mine today - it's very bad if you have to go up a motorway hill at 70. Car generally feels lethargic but instant consumption figures jumped noticeably. Aside from the hill for cruising 65-70 I could live with it on.

My experience of the 85hp engine is that using eco is not very economical. Best mpg seems to be in eco off and driven slightly more briskly than gentle. My car was more economical flat out than driven gently... Make what you can of that. Eco works when driven at 40-50mph on flat roads or down hill or when being held up in traffic.

My new 90HP engine seems significantly more economical and returned 48.8 on a quick trip to Norwich including some stop start and queuing traffic and 5 miles at 70mph on the by-pass. I have no idea why the two car should seem so different, except that the fuel mapping on eco is very very different and this setting seems fine for most use with eco off being raucous and a lot more rapid than I have been used to on the 2017 car. The last car was smoother and quieter as a trade off. They are quite different and both enjoyable. Thank god this uses less juice though and responds as I would expect to more gentle driving.

As the new car is on Continental Contact 6 orad tyres I wonder how much this contributes to the economy. It certainly steers and corners better. Time will tell what is going on.

The Panda Nut said:

...My new 90HP engine seems significantly more economical and returned 48.8 on a quick trip to Norwich including some stop start and queuing traffic and 5 miles at 70mph on the by-pass. I have no idea why the two car should seem so different...
As the new car is on Continental Contact 6 orad tyres I wonder how much this contributes to the economy. It certainly steers and corners better. Time will tell what is going on.

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I think the tyres are probably a very good reason for the difference, and show why Fiat now fit 'summer tyres' to the 'offroad' Panda, as it helps with their (the company's) overall emissions targets (and helps reduce their tax bll!)

After doing 10000km with my Panda Cross TA since end last year, I'm now at 8,4l/100km average. In miles: about 30-35 miles/gallon.

I don't drive it gently (for comparison, family car is a Cupra Ateca with 300 hp), do quite some city traffic and traffic jam.
Running the standard tyres that it came on, Goodyear 4-seasons.

For me, ECO button makes everything worse to the point of the car being dangerous to drive.

Does anyone know if the Eco button can be disabled? Ta.

Herts Hillhopper said:

I think the tyres are probably a very good reason for the difference, and show why Fiat now fit 'summer tyres' to the 'offroad' Panda, as it helps with their (the company's) overall emissions targets (and helps reduce their tax bll!)

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As an aside to this mine was not the 90HP advertised or stated on the production and delivery docs but 85HP so the comparison is between tyres only.. Having put winter tyres on I can further confirm the winter tyres are costly in terms of fuel used.

Maybemaybenot said:

Does anyone know if the Eco button can be disabled? Ta.

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Some cars have a switch that is on or off. others revert to eco on start up.

Logik says if you have a switch on or off then you could remove wires from the switch and join them up by passing / removing the switch. If you have a reverter though something in the ecu may be at work so I suspect the switch may be necessary. The 2017 and 2019 cars I have owned are so different ii might be worth seeing if you can have the ECU software upgraded. Both modes in my new car are perfectly usable, eco off is now pretty rapid compared to the earlier car.