V70: General D3 fuel consumption

[Gingerboy]

Hi Dave

The V70 D3 SE I had an extended test drive of was a geartronic and it was showing 39mpg based on historical data. I reset it for the short period I used it and managed 43mpg but in fairness it had very low miles on it = less than 4,000 and by all accounts had been on loan for a week to a customer who used it on short local runs.

During the time i used it was a mixture of A, B roads and dual carriageways and real mixed driving i.e. cruising at 70 and also some enthusiastic but safe driving on the A and B roads so in reality on a run I would imagine you could easily better the figure of 43mpg if you were driving sensibly.

Paul

Originally Posted by telecom dave

Has anybody got the Geartronic? Would be interested to know what fuel consumption they are getting. Got to better than my soon to be no more Mondeo TDCi....or so I hope.

Not long to wait now. Its actually at the dealers, have seen it in the flesh and has been for a couple of weeks which is pretty good, considering they were originally quoting Feb for delivery. So infuriating that I can't have it 'til the 13th until the lease expires on my old one.

Would be interested to see the Dark fineline trim Tommy as I've gone for that too. I wanted to be a bit different as I've seen very few with that option.

Dave