Thread: V40 or V50 ?
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Old Sep 7th, 2012, 17:23   #2
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Looking into V40s for a friend, who wants something with reasonable mpg and just wondering what the diesel versions of these are like? as far as i can tell the S2 V40s ended around 2003-4?. Are the diesel engines on these any good? and what sort of mpg / are people getting ?. On the next gen V50 are the diesel engines a big improvement? Are any of the petrol versions worth a look for reasonable mpg?
I once hired a V50 from the Volvo dealer when the 960 was in for a couple of days and the turbo diesel engine may be a good improvement over the earlier ones in the V40 but as for the actual car the enigne was in it was terrible but that is my opinion only.
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