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700/900 Series General Forum for the Volvo 740, 760, 780, 940, 960 & S/V90 cars |
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700/900 Fuel Economy (Petrol Engines)Views : 25944 Replies : 177Users Viewing This Thread : |
View Poll Results: What is your car's best fuel economy (petrol engines)? | |||
Less than 20mpg | 11 | 5.61% | |
20-21mpg | 8 | 4.08% | |
22-23mpg | 14 | 7.14% | |
24-25mpg | 34 | 17.35% | |
26-27mpg | 27 | 13.78% | |
28-29mpg | 29 | 14.80% | |
30-31mpg | 31 | 15.82% | |
32-33mpg | 19 | 9.69% | |
34-35mpg | 5 | 2.55% | |
Greater than 35mpg! | 18 | 9.18% | |
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Mar 10th, 2010, 20:20 | #1 |
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700/900 Fuel Economy (Petrol Engines)
Post up your car's best fuel economy (from recent years). Additionally, please state your engine and model year, and any other details you want to include. The poll is only for petrol-engined 700/900s.
I'll start. Model: 745GL Best MPG: 30mpg Model Year: 1986 Engine: B230K
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William 745 GL - 1986, B230K 745 GLE - 1987, B230E Last edited by OldBlueVolvo; Mar 10th, 2010 at 23:05. Reason: changed font |
Mar 10th, 2010, 21:21 | #2 |
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Hi,
You missed out the "Couldn't give a hoot" option... You do something to you font? Looks very thin! Des. . .
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Yes I changed the font to Arial Narrow.
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William 745 GL - 1986, B230K 745 GLE - 1987, B230E Last edited by OldBlueVolvo; Mar 10th, 2010 at 22:47. Reason: missing word |
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Mar 10th, 2010, 21:55 | #4 |
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Who ticked 'Greater than 35'? I'd love to know more.
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Mar 10th, 2010, 22:17 | #5 |
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Hi ROA, if you click on any of the blue underlined numbers on the poll you will see lists of all the contributors to the poll. Then click on a username to see their profile.
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Mar 11th, 2010, 09:39 | #6 |
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i did .i used to get 34 with the small turbo but now i have the large turbo its doing more like 36 to 38 on the motorway and an average of 28 round town.mainly due to the turbo not kicking in till 3krpm .its all down to the way you drive the car to get decent fuel economy ,but dont get me wrong if i put my foot down i recon i could get it to 10 or less lol.
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Does this mean my motor needs work do you think? I read on another thread how someone improved their mpg by replacing their worn out lambda sensor, and I once found the official mpg figures for the 940 which suggested they could do 38 mpg. Of course, the 700/900s are old now so they will have lost some efficiency, but it would be nice to get some back. |
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Mar 10th, 2010, 21:23 | #8 |
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93 945 auto 29 mpg. I'm heavy footed!
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93 940 estate, 2.3 normally aspirated, manual. 30 mpg at best on a motorway run.
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Mar 10th, 2010, 23:11 | #10 |
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I have had 31 on a long motorway run but voted 27 cause thats my average.
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