I see that for anybody who wants a new model Volvo V70 with a petrol engine with decent performance has to go for the 2.5T and what is the CO2 level for this engine? 227g
A few grammes less and the road tax differences over the coming years would be considerable. Surely it can't be that difficult for Volvo/Ford to modify this engine to make it output a few less grammes of CO2 so why haven't they done this for the '09' model year?
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To be honest Volvo have taken it to the max , it's now an old engine design. However a very good one but it isn't designed with emmissions in mind. You would be better off with the V70 D5 which is very good a lot lower co2 at least 10 mpg if not more and a better residual value !
Edited by Webmaster on 20/08/2008 at 01:48
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The five pot Volvo petrol turbos are among the finest mass produced engines around at the moment in my (biased) opinion, but it's hard to see them surviving in these cost/emission conscious times.
That said, if you can afford a new V70.....
I would have thought the temptation to 'tweak' the figures the fractions of a percent needed to fall into the lower VED band would have been quite tempting, bearing in mind manufacturers mpg and emission figures are often irreproducible in the real world. Who'd know?
Cheers
DP
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All emission and fuel consumption figures are observrd by government inspectors.
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There's an article on the 4car website (I won't supply a link to a competing website) that indicates that the quoted CO2 figures for a lot of the new 'eco specials' from Ford, VW, etc. aren't accurate anyway so it's a fair point that you make.
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I suspect the g/km figures are a black art and there is a lot of smoke and mirrors going on.
How one manufacturer can claim one figure and another manufacturer can be 40% less while producing more power is beyond me.
I always thought you had to burn fuel to create power. It is apparent some manufacturers have discovered free power or, more likely, a flaw in the testing criteria which can be exploited.
Edited by gmac on 20/08/2008 at 12:05
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When you are running a car of that size paying £200 or £300 is neither here nor there the depreciation must be phenomenal and when it reaches banger age £8 per week max to have such a vehicle on the road does not seem outrageous.
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