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It’s become a habit lately for manufacturers to lie blatantly about their cars’ fuel consumption figures. Sure, they can go as far as to claim a full-size SUV sips just 4 liters of petrol every 100 kilometer but we know better.
That’s why when it comes to real-life figures, the US Environmental Protection Agency is pretty much the most accurate source for mpg ratings. They recently announced that the 2016 Volvo XC90 AWD model returns 22 mpg (10.7 l/100 km) on average. Surprised?
We certainly are not, even though Volvo claims that according to their tests, the car is capable of 30.5 mpg or 7.7 l/100 km combined. That’s quite the difference.
Considering the size of the car and the powertrain under the bonnet, we can understand how the XC90 can sip so much fuel on average. That’s because it weighs just a tad over 2 tons and has a 2-liter 4-cylinder petrol engine that is both turbocharged and supercharged making 320 HP and 400 Nm (295 lb-ft) of torque.
Those numbers are absolutely incredible for such a small plant but even with that small displacement fuel consumption can’t be as low as the Swedes claim.
The 22 mpg result is not all that bad though, considering it’s three mpg better than what the previous XC90 used to do. Now let’s see what the 400 HP plug-in hybrid can do and what the EPA finds.
We certainly are not, even though Volvo claims that according to their tests, the car is capable of 30.5 mpg or 7.7 l/100 km combined. That’s quite the difference.
Considering the size of the car and the powertrain under the bonnet, we can understand how the XC90 can sip so much fuel on average. That’s because it weighs just a tad over 2 tons and has a 2-liter 4-cylinder petrol engine that is both turbocharged and supercharged making 320 HP and 400 Nm (295 lb-ft) of torque.
Those numbers are absolutely incredible for such a small plant but even with that small displacement fuel consumption can’t be as low as the Swedes claim.
The 22 mpg result is not all that bad though, considering it’s three mpg better than what the previous XC90 used to do. Now let’s see what the 400 HP plug-in hybrid can do and what the EPA finds.
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