Mileage for a '98 V70 GLT+

(depending on the map could help your MPG's on the road)

, free-flow exhaust (will help your MPG's on the road)

, sway bars, cross brace and

(will have almost no effect on MPG's, other then encouraging spirited driving) It's a bunch of fun.

I bet!

My wife, bless her soul, drives her (even though the title say differently :) ) 850--the same under the skin as your V70 (although hers is a sedan) around town and gets 16-17mpg. On $2.649/gal super no less.

She is from the urban binary school of driving--a car has three states--accelerating, coasting, and breaking.

She is actually a hoot to drive with on back roads when she has to get somewhere FAST, but on the road she makes me nauseous. In France she had a car up to ~160 then in the middle of a superhighway (autoroute) for no reason whatsoever she hits the binders and drops 40 kmph.

She does have very many fine qualities however. :D

It's a very pernicious downward spiral--I drive, she gets less and less experienced in highway driving--although she will be happy to cruise ~80 mph at the apex of her 25 mph speed delta curve LOL.

When I drive it on the road I get around 25-28 going 70-80 MPH on trips.

Must be expensive to maintain, with all that breaking. And how does she stop?

Our 01 V70 regularly gets 25 mpg in town and 28 on the highway...

Point taken. I guess that leaves her compression and the Fred Flintstone technique :)

Poor rings and head!

Just as an aside, is it your cheeky comments that get you...oh, never mind! :D