MPG Figures

[Biotoxic]

S40 1.9D (115), Average mpg at the moment is 48.1

[atnas666]

My average is 25 MPG T4 on Lpg

[Alex121]

S40 T4 on V-power

On a long run at 70mph I'll get 37-40mpg feather footed

Round town with lots of stop/start - 33mpg

Normal combined average per tank is around 36mpg. If I have a lot of fun in it I'll get 31-32mpg - Never seen it lower than 30 though and that was driving it like I stole it for a considerable amount of time Highest I've ever seen was 41.2 and that was cruising between 65 and 70 and was immensely boring...

[gmain1967]

Originally Posted by Alex121

S40 T4 on V-power

On a long run at 70mph I'll get 37-40mpg feather footed

Round town with lots of stop/start - 33mpg

Normal combined average per tank is around 36mpg. If I have a lot of fun in it I'll get 31-32mpg - Never seen it lower than 30 though and that was driving it like I stole it for a considerable amount of time Highest I've ever seen was 41.2 and that was cruising between 65 and 70 and was immensely boring...

Eh?! 33mpg around town in a T4? That's damned good and over 400 miles on a tank, in town?

Mine is admittedly modifed, but low 20's typical and about 30 on motorway/run at best.

[atnas666]

Originally Posted by gmain1967

Eh?! 33mpg around town in a T4? That's damned good and over 400 miles on a tank, in town?

Mine is admittedly modifed, but low 20's typical and about 30 on motorway/run at best.

Agree......

[Alex121]

Originally Posted by gmain1967

Eh?! 33mpg around town in a T4? That's damned good and over 400 miles on a tank, in town?

Mine is admittedly modifed, but low 20's typical and about 30 on motorway/run at best.

I don't do town that often but did a lot on this tank, filling up yesterday with about 80% town and 20 motorway I got 314 miles from 42 litres - calculated at the pump.

My dads T4 gets 34.5 combined on a run (75 motorway miles per day) and finds it's impossible to get higher, maybe the software on the 2002 is different from the 2001? I don't know, I don't understand why mine is higher but I'm not going to complain.

[Volvo2002]

Originally Posted by Alex121

S40 T4 on V-power

On a long run at 70mph I'll get 37-40mpg feather footed

Round town with lots of stop/start - 33mpg

Normal combined average per tank is around 36mpg. If I have a lot of fun in it I'll get 31-32mpg - Never seen it lower than 30 though and that was driving it like I stole it for a considerable amount of time Highest I've ever seen was 41.2 and that was cruising between 65 and 70 and was immensely boring...

These figures can't be right Alex.

Driving a turbo charged car heavily footed and it won't drop below 30mpg? I find that very hard to believe, honestly. The normal combined average of 36 is not too far fetched but the 33 in town doesn't sound right to me at all. My 1.8 is 3 mpg below that and that's me driving carefully.

Maybe these T4s are very economical but these figures sound too good to be true to me, just being honest

[Alex121]

Originally Posted by Volvo2002

These figures can't be right Alex.

Driving a turbo charged car heavily footed and it won't drop below 30mpg? I find that very hard to believe, honestly. The normal combined average of 36 is not too far fetched but the 33 in town doesn't sound right to me at all. My 1.8 is 3 mpg below that and that's me driving carefully.

Maybe these T4s are very economical but these figures sound too good to be true to me, just being honest

As said, I don't drive it hard very often, it's almost pointless me having a turbo as it only gets thrashed on sliproads, other than that I'm very careful. As also said, I don't drive in town often, only on my last tank was there a lot of town driving involved and that was calculated at the pump, the pump doesn't lie and I can take a picture of the receipt if you really don't believe me lol

[Volvo2002]

Originally Posted by Alex121

As said, I don't drive it hard very often, it's almost pointless me having a turbo as it only gets thrashed on sliproads, other than that I'm very careful. As also said, I don't drive in town often, only on my last tank was there a lot of town driving involved and that was calculated at the pump, the pump doesn't lie and I can take a picture of the receipt if you really don't believe me lol

No I believe you lol. Those figures are tremendous though. Shame the T4 is so expensive to insure because I'd have one in a heartbeat!

[Alex121]

Originally Posted by Volvo2002

No I believe you lol. Those figures are tremendous though. Shame the T4 is so expensive to insure because I'd have one in a heartbeat!

Has to be said it's the highest I've seen a T4 as well. Except for one guy who claimed 50mpg on a long run.

Another guy on there recently got a 2003 T4 and he averaged 40 something at 75mph on cruise control, the 2001+ T4s really are quite impressive on fuel.