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Originally Posted by Ross Slaughter
I have but it is a flat front model I want 🙂
Also not sure I want the fuel bills 😲
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Fuel Bills?
More economical than the B230E that you were looking at.
I had 3 740GLEs, all estate and auto with the B230E engine the same as the one you were going to bid on. Depending on where i drove from normal running about round here to a long run, i'd get anywhere between 23-25mpg round here to 35mpg on a run.
The 760GLE, also auto, estate but with the B280E engine instead, 25-26mpg round here and up to 37mpg on a run. A few months back i went down to Crawley and back via Croydon and the M25 including a mobile car park near Heathrow on the way back (530-600 ish in the evening) and it returned 33mpg including some high speed driving as well.
The answer to "Why?" is simple - the V6 produces more torque so is better matched to the weight of the car so doesn't have to work so hard.
Trouble is if you go for a flat-front V6 B28E, it won't have the benefit of Volvo reworking the engine so won't be as economical, in which case you'd be better off with the B230E instead.
