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2.5Turbo · #4 02-02-2010, 02:22 PM

Sounds like the exact car my dad got last summer. Only issue we had with it was a bad battery control computer, presumably because the battery went bad after it sat on the lot for 6 months. The engine wouldn't crank and an ESP/ABS malfunction message was displayed. New battery and control module installed under warranty and all was good after a couple weeks of being in and out of the shop for troubleshooting. Haven't had a problem since.

We got 38mpg going 65-75mph on a highway trip last Thanksgiving. I've found the computer calculation is slightly pessimistic, consistently 1-2mpg low compared to the fill up calculation, so we were probably doing close to 40mpg!