I think if the Saab goes........

Stop this madness !

You get what you pay for. Your SAAB is good *because* it uses lots of fuel ! Anything offering a modicum of performance, will drink juice.

Have you tried just taking it easy in the SAAB ? I can get 400 miles from a tank of juice in the TI, if I *really* try !

I do take it easy in the Saab. thats the problem, I have the power, but don't get the chance to use it.

The Saab has a 400 miles capacity tank (67 litres I think) according to Saab, + reserve.

According to the fuel gauge, the miles I'm doing, and what I'm putting in, it looks to me like I'm getting roughly 360 for a tank, plus a generous reserve.

It's the opposite of that with the Audi. On one occasion, where I've stuck to 60 for a reasonable length of time, the fuel computer was showing a

Peter

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The Saab is supposed to do something like 23-26 arround town, 27-30 on longish motorway type runs.

Even though I use the motorway everyday, it is M62 rush hour stuff both ways.

Sometimes coming home, doing about 10mph stop-start in the second lane (because we are moving faster than the first) I barely get off the clutch in first before we are stopping again. This srt of traffic uses about one days return journey worth of fuel in about 15mins to half an hour.

Best I've managed was 31MPG that was with a 200 mile round trip on Motorways for 90% of the time at or above the speed limit over the pennines.

The Favorit was a little tinnier. But it was because it was lighter. The Felicia had such wonderful things like bigger impact beams, airbags, heavier colapsable bumpers. Prettier looking, but a lot heavier with the same suspension, and only a moderatley more powerful engine. made for a more sluggish wallowier car.

but both are ultimatly very reliable, mechanically simple, and wehn the mood takes me, very tunable, because they are very strangled in the breathing dept to start with, the MPi head of a Felicia on a favorit lump, with twin Dellortos or Webers, or even quad SUs, with a marginally bigger bored manifold and single system can release 20-30 BHP without any effort, and that is without going inside the engine. And you can lose a third of the weight, before the car starts to look stripped, or sound overly rattly. Power up, weight down, and the car is a lot better.