Vtie, You're absolutely right that it is not very well done by volvo to increase the fuel consumption for the new xc70. I think they should have kept the 2.5T engine as an option and refined it. If they would have worked a bit on the aerodynamics and shaved of 50 or 100 kg of fat I think they could have presented a significant reduction of fuel consuption.
I actually think they went for the 6 pot to measure up with the Audi Allroads organ size.
The numbers BMW state are impressive but as you see in real life tests (previous post) you would not come close to those numbers. The driving cycles for the official fuel consuption tests are done with trained drivers that drive the test cycle extremely frugaly. Actually if you replace the driver with a computer which just drives with a PID algorithm the consuption goes up with 5-10 percent.
BTW I checked the fuel consuption of the 330 xi compared with the 530 xi and to my surprise the 330 xi has a much higher consumtion. 9.8 l / 100 km vs. 8.5 for the 530xi. Strange...
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