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94 850 NA Pleased with fuel economy

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2goldvolvos
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94 850 NA Pleased with fuel economy

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Yesterday our recently acquired 850 with 130k on the clock made its first long highway trip (in our hands). Daughter #1 ran it across the state and back, and got 32.1 MPG. I asked her if she went 70 MPH, thinking she might have been slowly psuedo-hypermiling like some of her other poor college student friends. She just sniggered, so I asked again how fast she was driving: 75-80! I thought that was pretty good fuel economy. Anybody else get those kind of numbers with a plain-Jane 850?
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Not unheard of for these cars when they are properly tuned.
'98 S70 T5 Emrld Grn Met/Beige Tons of Upgrades Mobil-1
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