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What is your MPG

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MPG poll

1M views 1K replies 655 participants last post by  That_Yellow_Car_Guy 
#1 ·
I thought out of curiousity I'd start a poll to see what kind of mpg everyone is getting. If you are getting around 30+ mpg could you please reply with the things you did or methods used to increase your mpg. I've filled up 3 times so far. The mpg for the tank of gas from the dealership is not accurate as I don't know for sure if the trip miles were on the tank.

Rounded to the nearest 10th.
Fill up---MPG
0---------????
1---------24.4
2---------25.7
3---------Still driving on this tank.

I up shifted a little bit later on fill up #2 (between about 2750 and 3000 rpms vs around 2250 give or take 200 rpms.
 
#810 ·
hmmm well i cant really answer this poll accurately because my mpg is 22-37mpg.. turbo zetec engine. really depends on how fast i feel like going :)
 
#811 ·
I have a 2013 SE auto. I'm not to happy with the MPG this Focus gets. I drive 80% highway and still only get 27.2 Avg. I've had it as high as 28.3 on a trip to and from Indy ( 200 Miles round trip) with the cruze control set at 65 MPH. I've had the car for about 4 months. I don't beat it.
Is the MPG going to go up after the engine brakes in? I'm guessing maybe 1 to 2 MPG.
 
#812 ·
Yes, your mileage will improve after your car is broken in. It will also improve in the warmer months. My driving profile is like yours and I track my mileage via actual fillups vs the hype guage that overestimates mine by 2 mpg on average.

I have an 09 SES that is averaging 32.21 over the last 99k miles.
My lowest was 25.92 after a winter storm and hours long commute.
My highest has been 36.02 in the summer.

I drive a bit faster than you with speeds of 55-60 for the first 25 miles, 70-75 for the next 20 and 45 for the last 5. I don't hypermile, and could probably get a bit better mileage if I slowed down. Another factor in my mileage and possibly yours is that I live in a state that mandates a 10% ethanol blend in all regular unleaded gas. My older Escorts and Tracers lost 2-3 mpg when the switch happened. I don't know how much the Focus loses, because the only E0 gas is premium and that's not comparing apples to apples.

In looking back through my mileage history, I can see that I had many fillups in the first few months under 29, but this winter I have only had 2 fillups under that. Both probably because of the cold weather and warming up the car before leaving.

So after that wall of text, you should probably see much improved mileage soon.
 
#813 ·
I'm quite satisfied with my MPGs as my wife's commute is only a 2 miles round trip and the car sees about 80-90% city driving and I just filled up this morning and got a calculated 29mpg while the computer average estimate is a steady 27mpg. Car has 7100 miles on it now.
 
#817 ·
2005 Focus. 2 L. with factory "permanent" air filter. (like K & N type). 5 speed manual and no aftermarket mods. Currently have 216,000 miles and never replaced a clutch! WOW. Anyway, I get 32 MPG in "city" driving but still concerned. When car was new I got 39.6 MPG pure highway. (62 MPH, no A/C on cruise control). BUT, I've lost that highway MPG and worried the air filter is the culprit. Unsure "how" to read the air restriction gauge. Thoughts welcome
 
#822 ·
I've had my Focus Titanium Hatchback for a week with 500 miles on it (I've put 400 on it). Got 34 mpg doing 74-75 on the highway but after a couple days of around the town driving it's settled at 28.9 mpg average. I'm coming from a Mitsubishi Montero which got maybe 13 mpg around town so I'm a happy camper as far as mpg goes, even if it doesn't go up after the break-in period.
 
#826 ·
Just had my third tank over 500 miles today. This one was 509 miles at 43mpg but my longest tank was 530 miles.

Net average for 18000 miles is 37.9mpg.


Brian

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#828 ·
I have an overall average of 6.3 L/100 km (37 mpg) after driving my 2013 Focus approximately 18,000 km (11,200 miles) since purchasing it a couple months ago. I use Trip 1 as my overall odometer while Trip 2 measures between fill-ups.

In order to get up to 43-44 mpg that I often get, I need to drive about 92 km/h (57 miles/hr) on a highway with posted limit of 100 km/h (62 miles/hr). This frustrates people so I typically avoid it.

To average 40 mpg, I need to drive about the speed limit on the highway.

To average 38 mpg, I can go 105-110 km/h (65-68 miles/hr).

To average 35-36 mpg, I can safely go 120 km/h (74 miles/hr) - ie. the norm.

Depends how cheap I feel too. It is definitely rewarding to drive 350 km per day and only pay $22 to fill-up my tank instead of the $30 I used to pay in my 2000 Focus that I retired.

I do about 88% highway, 12% city driving in a typical day/week/month.
 
#829 ·
With a little over 12,000 miles on the clock, my car has averaged 32.44 mpg in its lifetime. About 60% of those miles have been in the city in stop-and-go traffic (mostly my work commute), the remaining 40% are on the highway trips I occasionally take. On the last fill-up, the car did 30.36 mpg. This was entirely commuting to and from work, no out-of-city trips.

For the record, my daily commute is the equivalent of 70% traffic and 30% highway. I say equivalent because if it wasn't for the construction that has been ongoing for the past two years on the main highway I take to get into town, it would be the other way around. Alternate routes are even longer and slower.

Best I've ever gotten out of the car was 41.6 mpg. This was entirely highway, doing mostly 65MPH (occasionally touching 75 while passing) and with the cruise control almost the whole way on fairly hilly terrain.


Mileage could be a bit better if the manual box had a 6th gear.
 
#830 ·
Just got 35 mpg last week in my svt! Mostly highway but it was the first long trip after taking out of winter storage so I had to give it to her a couple times lol. Have gotten close to 40 a few times last summer.

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#831 ·
The summer of 2010 when I had just gotten the car I got 38mpg on a trip to the beach doing 55-60mph the whole way. Since then, I haven't even come close to that. I didn't start recording my economy til 2011, so I have everything from then until now.





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#833 ·
I don't know how accurate the computer is but I have been pulling ridiculous numbers lately on the highway. I've been getting 43-44 mpg on the highway with windows closed and air-con off going 65mph and 44-45 mpg going 60, and 45+ going 55mph (scary as [:)][:)][:)][:)][:)]). The mpg drops off at 70 to 41 and 38 at 75. Did these tests at a minimum 10 mile intervals resetting the trip computer at each speed, some where over 10 miles (done until mpg stopped changing). As I said, I ran these "tests" with air conditioning off, fan off, windows up, 73 degrees F outside, Premium 93 gas, 1 person (myself) in the car with no more than 30lbs cargo, and my Steeda CAI installed, Cruise control set that the corresponding interval for each test I even ran some of the more unbelievable tests 1 or 2 more times that trip and achieved MPGs within .5 of the first test.

Again, this was only done based off the trip computer. Unfortunately When I finally did fill up I had added another 100+ miles of stop and go city driving to the mix so even my overall fuel mileage for the trip couldn't be verified by the pump. I should note, when I tried to run at the speeds with the air-con on it was significantly worse. 40.5 at 65, 41.3 at 60, didn't test the other speeds.
 
#834 ·
I'm getting 40mpg when I try

I have had my Focus for a couple of months and have experimented on how I drive to get the best mpg. I drive in Canada and so the car uses L/100km format, but I have converted to mpg.

My daily commute is 77km with approximately 15km country roads (80kph limit), 56km in highway (100kph limit) and 6km city (stop start).

Originally I drove normally for me - 90 on country, 115 highway and got an average of 6.5 l/100lm or 36mpg. I thought this was pretty good.

However, if I drive at 88 on country roads, 104 highway I regularly get 5.8L/100km which is 40.5 mpg.Very pleased with this and I have become surprisingly tolerant of my reduced speeds. I also never need look out for speed traps or cops!

Not everyones idea of a good drive, but it is working for me.
 
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