[Landie Man]

Originally Posted by Nicholas Lewin

Hi Landieman - yes but what does your SWB LR do? I still hanker after a Landrover having had SII, SIII and Defender...)

So my 100k mile, manual 2.3 estate will do about 35-37mpg on a regular journey I do from London to Derby (about 150 miles). It's LH2.4 injection, has tyres with plenty of pressure in them, an electric cooling fan (Revotec conversion) and minimal junk in the car, regularly serviced (new air filter ea time and things like that). But to get that sort of figure I am driving at 60-65 mph... Sounds similar to Rustyboots in response above

To my mind there are two things which will always nobble a 240 for fuel consumption which are it's shape (wind resistance) and weight (build quality). The only way you can get high figures is to kid-glove the car. Around 60 mph is a critical speed where wind resistance increases exponentially

For a 1992 automatic B230F (2.3l engine) estate, Volvo quote the following figures: urban/21.2 mpg
56 mph/36.2 mpg
75mph/27.4 mpg

The numerical average of the two higher figures is at 65.5 mph you should get 31.8 mpg (obv it isn't a linear relationship). Volvo claim that the 2.3 is more economical than the 2.0 all round - I guess because of better power:weight ratio

I'll stop whittering now! Hope that helps. Enjoy the Volvo

Nick

Hi Nick, when the SIII was my everyday car, about 22-25mpg on diesel :-D:


Yeah in all honesty I don't really care about the MPG!