Post your MPG's

[Sc00ter]

PP?

Nope - standard non-PP rear with a 6-speed. I wanted everything else in the PP but the 3.73 rear — but worries about 12-13 mpg as a daily commuter kept me from ordering it.

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[smitty]

i've averaged right around 20mpg since I bought the car according to "trip 2." Mostly city driving with about 35% highway in 1100 miles. Manual with 3:55 gears and I put in 92 octane. I expect it will improve slightly with more break in. Not too bad for a 435hp car :ford:

Also, when just tooling around town, I start in 2nd gear and skip to 4th unless I'm on a hill and I take it out of gear and coast down hills quite a bit too.

 

[BlackS550]

i've averaged right around 20mpg since I bought the car according to "trip 2." Mostly city driving with about 35% highway in 1100 miles. Manual with 3:55 gears and I put in 92 octane. I expect it will improve slightly with more break in. Not too bad for a 435hp car :ford:

Also, when just tooling around town, I start in 2nd gear and skip to 4th unless I'm on a hill and I take it out of gear and coast down hills quite a bit too.

from a dead stop you start in 2nd gear? isnt that bad?

 

[AndreG]

No it isn't bad. 2nd in PP is short enough that it can be considered 1st.

the trick is to have the clutch out completely by the time the revs are slightly above 1k, there is minimal slippage.

When I skip gears I go from 2nd - 4th - and then 5th or 6th depending on the speed limit.

 

[WatchSquid]

No it isn't bad. 2nd in PP is short enough that it can be considered 1st.

the trick is to have the clutch out completely by the time the revs are slightly above 1k, there is minimal slippage.

When I skip gears I go from 2nd - 4th - and then 5th or 6th depending on the speed limit.

I do the same thing. Just seemed easier to skip gears. The 6-speed in my Mazdaspeed was the same way. REALLY low, I'd go from 2-4-6 all the time.

 

[kz]

Finally had a chance to do a longer highway drive - about 30 miles to downtown Cinci. Just pure highway drive with relatively little stop and go traffic - showed betwen 26 - 27 mpg. With some downtown driving, return home and running errands (grocery, gym, picking up daughter from school) ended up being 24 mpg of the day.

That's better then my wife's Highlander with a V6. No clue why would anybody buy any Ecoboost (sorry, couldn't resist - driving to work which is really short drive for me I was averaging 15 mpg)

 

[mikeyjobu]

I wonder if around town you could do even better going from 1-3-X-X? It seems like with the short first gear it might require even less of the engine to get the car rolling -- albeit even slower. I've only driven one one time though -- when I took it back to the dealer I was playing around the parking lot before parking, and I was in second gear the whole time -- while at the kinds of speeds that I would have needed to have been in first with about any other car. I've read that around town the 3.73's can actually help some if you have the discipline to keep your foot out of it, and it seems like starting off in second you'll still be higher than say a 3.31 or 3.55 in 1st? I don't know -- that might just be painfully slow, and you can still skip-shift from second...

 

[Asharus]

my trip MPG computer hit a milestone today. 18.2, highest i've seen, LOL. about 133 hours and 4700 miles combined. 70/30 highway/city. i do not drive conservatively, skip gears, or shift anytime below 3k rpms.

 

[BmacIL]

I wonder if around town you could do even better going from 1-3-X-X? It seems like with the short first gear it might require even less of the engine to get the car rolling -- albeit even slower. I've only driven one one time though -- when I took it back to the dealer I was playing around the parking lot before parking, and I was in second gear the whole time -- while at the kinds of speeds that I would have needed to have been in first with about any other car. I've read that around town the 3.73's can actually help some if you have the discipline to keep your foot out of it, and it seems like starting off in second you'll still be higher than say a 3.31 or 3.55 in 1st? I don't know -- that might just be painfully slow, and you can still skip-shift from second...

I almost always do 1-3-5/6 driving around town (when not aggressive). I make the shift to 6th around 43-45 mph. It most definitely helps fuel economy.

 

[GoBlues38]

filled up 3 times now. 50/50 mix of city and highway.

19-20mpg for the tank.

I get 24-25 on cruise @ 70mph (3.55's)

 

[Spartan]

filled up 3 times now. 50/50 mix of city and highway.

19-20mpg for the tank.

I get 24-25 on cruise @ 70mph (3.55's)

Nice.

 

[Justpassingas]

No clue why would anybody buy any Ecoboost (sorry, couldn't resist - driving to work which is really short drive for me I was averaging 15 mpg)

Speaking solely for myself and not other EB owners....I bought an EB because its our DD with my wife driving it 90% of the time....it had nothing to with MPG or $$$...Coming from a 170HP Scion Tc and knowing my wife I just didn't want her in a 400+ HP car.....after 3000 miles I'm finally averaging above 20MPG....

 

[drabon74]

GT auto, 3.55 23.6 mpg average on a 3 hr road trip(each way) to Charlotte NC, with lots of mall hopping and restaurant hunting in the city and 3 WOT runs up to 90-100 mph passing cars. 80% of the drive was done in the normal mode, 20% in track mode.
My latest tank im @ 22.5 mixed driving around where i live

 

[Sinister]

I took an almost 600 mile round trip to have Big Worm install my stripes and blackouts. I averaged 22.5mpg for the whole trip. It's interesting, I noticed that at 65mph on the highway I was at 24.5mpg and climbing. As soon as I went over 70 it would drop. At 80-85 (which I ran for a long time) it would drop even faster. Overall I'm happy with 22.5 especially with 3.73's and the fact that I was in bumper to bumper traffic for around an hour on the way home through Houston.

 

[Sc00ter]

I took an almost 600 mile round trip to have Big Worm install my stripes and blackouts. I averaged 22.5mpg for the whole trip. It's interesting, I noticed that at 65mph on the highway I was at 24.5mpg and climbing. As soon as I went over 70 it would drop. At 80-85 (which I ran for a long time) it would drop even faster. Overall I'm happy with 22.5 especially with 3.73's and the fact that I was in bumper to bumper traffic for around an hour on the way home through Houston.

Thanks for the info - I already do 1-3-5 as much as possible, I'll try setting the cruise for 68 next trip and sticking with it.

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