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Originally Posted by Lexman8
Done ~5,000 miles and average is 33.6 mpg. Many short journeys, occasional mid-length of ~30 miles and the odd long motorway trek.
I do think the XC90 would benefit in several ways from a larger engine. My old Merc which weighed the same as an XC90 had a 5 litre V8 petrol engine and could manage 32 mpg on a long run (okay, it was ~18 around town) but comparing that engine with the one in the XC90 (5 litre vs 2 litre, petrol vs diesel) you'd expect the '90 to be far better than it is. A small engine in a big car probably isn't a good idea.
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I miss so badly big engined naturally aspirated old slush box bruisers. Seriously, every single one of these modern turbo based small engined things no matter what the manufacturer with some form of "intelligent" auto box thats optimised for MPG is just horrible.
Wonder if the GLE63 behaves itself
