Well isn't this nice....

[Mkengineering]

Driving this morning and my MPG was reading this lovely number



Granted I was doing 52mph but either way still was nice too see hahha

[Dippydog]

Even if slightly optimistic[and I'm not saying it is] that's pretty good going.Having said that just after I bought my V70 I got just over 40 mpg on a 250ml round trip at predominantly 60mph.

[john.wigley]

You are both doing very well. I have never even approached 40 MPG in my V70. The OBC currently shows 30.3, and my spreadsheet figure over 10K+ miles is only 29.5. I didn't think that was too bad for a 2.4 litre, but it pales into insignificance when compared with your figures. I'm not a particularly hard driver, but don't do that many long runs these days. The car appears to run well and I don't appear to be leaking fuel, but clearly it is returning significantly less than comparable cars seem to manage.

I do relatively few miles these days (3 - 4K pa in the V70), so the cost of fuel is not the major factor in my motoring expenses, but it would still be a useful saving if I could reduce my consumption by maybe 10 - 20% to bring it into the mid 30s at least. On the plus side, the near zero depreciation more than compensates for spending a little more at the pumps.

As an aside, I've also owned 7 series cars which have returned significantly differing MPG figures over extended periods of comparable give and take driving. One car (carb) never did much more than 23, while another (FI) achieved 28 over 60k+ miles. Perhaps it depends on the individual car as much as the driver?

Regards, John.

[DaveNP]

Yikes!
I have to admit I don't keep too close a check on my mpg (probably because I don't want to know the truth) but for the driving I do, mostly 10 miles each way to work and around Milton Keynes with all of its dual carriageways and roundabouts, I reckon on 20mpg. Keep remembering that the depreciation on a 20 year old V70 is negligible to non existent.

[Dippydog]

When I achieved that mpg it was because I was sat at 60mph most of the journey due to following a step daughter whose Focus diesel estate would flicker its oil light at speeds above that.So granted it was something of a one off,most of my driving is around town where low 20's are more the norm.I don't obsess about fuel consumption[otherwise I wouldn't run a 2.4 V70,3.0 Omega and a 960] although I like to know what's achievable,but I keep an eye on the average shown as a possible indicator of problems.

[Mkengineering]

Well I was just seeing what the black panther could achieve. But my normal mpg is around 25 to 27mpg on a long run