2012 owners Post your MPG's

[sobhall]

I've had my 2012 Ford Focus S Sedan for about five months; and have driven it almost 10K miles. The worst gas fill-up mpg reading I've experienced is a little over 35. Most of them have been around 40 mpg, with my highest being over 42 mpg. All this with no cruise control. I do all the little things to get my best mileage, accelerating gradually, braking gradually, coasting when possible etc. I drive around 50-55 on non-freeway routes, which have long stretches in between signal lights, and 60-65 on freeways. I hope this is helpful. I'm anxious to have cruise control installed on my car to see what kind of mpg improvement I see. Love this car.

[hedgehog26]

Don't know what I'm doing wrong but I've been getting 29 mpg on my Focus SE (1month old with 1100 mi) with the Sports pkg, MT, and the 17 in wheels. I don't accelerate like a madman but I don't shift when the display tells me to do so either. I drive about 60/40 hwy/city with a few stop n go traffic daily. I was hoping to get about 35 on this car but it ain't happening. The only thing I could think of, and this I experienced with my other cars, is that for some reason I get less miles if I fill up from Costco compared to Chevron. Besides that, idk what I'm doing wrong.

[BlueFocusSE5]

Originally Posted by kam327

I'm getting about 33 now, but I do have stop and go at each end of my 22 mile (each way commute), and I'm never on the expressway so I have a light to stop at every mile or two on average. And I don't baby it either, frequently gunning it around slowpokes on 4-lane suburban roads and accelerating pretty briskly from lights. I'm CONSTANTLY frustrated by the slowpokes out there....

The so-called slowpokes are just people trying to save money by taking it easy on the accelerator to get better gas mileage. Gas prices in this Obama-nation economy are destroying a lot of peoples budgets.

Slow down, save gas/money and enjoy the ride. There's no need to rush.

[Hawktwoe]

Originally Posted by BlueFocusSE5

The so-called slowpokes are just people trying to save money by taking it easy on the accelerator to get better gas mileage. Gas prices in this Obama-nation economy are destroying a lot of peoples budgets.

Slow down, save gas/money and enjoy the ride. There's no need to rush.

Obama-nation economy, really? Why do people try turning things political?

[kam327]

Originally Posted by BlueFocusSE5

The so-called slowpokes are just people trying to save money by taking it easy on the accelerator to get better gas mileage. Gas prices in this Obama-nation economy are destroying a lot of peoples budgets.

Slow down, save gas/money and enjoy the ride. There's no need to rush.

There's no excuse for folks going 5, or even 10, mph below the posted speed limit. And 9 times out of 10 when I get to see who's holding me up, they're on a cell phone. Then again I'm sure I get called a slowpoke when I'm doing my usual and consistent 5-7 mph over the limit and folks are riding my butt wanting to do 15 over. But I can live with that.

[kam327]

Originally Posted by hedgehog26

Don't know what I'm doing wrong but I've been getting 29 mpg on my Focus SE (1month old with 1100 mi) with the Sports pkg, MT, and the 17 in wheels. I don't accelerate like a madman but I don't shift when the display tells me to do so either. I drive about 60/40 hwy/city with a few stop n go traffic daily. I was hoping to get about 35 on this car but it ain't happening. The only thing I could think of, and this I experienced with my other cars, is that for some reason I get less miles if I fill up from Costco compared to Chevron. Besides that, idk what I'm doing wrong.

Yeah that would be frustrating. How fast do you go on the highway? Do you idle a lot? Let it warm up for 20 minutes in your driveway?

[kickstand]

Originally Posted by hedgehog26

Don't know what I'm doing wrong but I've been getting 29 mpg on my Focus SE (1month old with 1100 mi) with the Sports pkg, MT, and the 17 in wheels. I don't accelerate like a madman but I don't shift when the display tells me to do so either. I drive about 60/40 hwy/city with a few stop n go traffic daily. I was hoping to get about 35 on this car but it ain't happening. The only thing I could think of, and this I experienced with my other cars, is that for some reason I get less miles if I fill up from Costco compared to Chevron. Besides that, idk what I'm doing wrong.

I feel your frustrations.

When I researched my car I was hoping for a mixed bag of driving to get me about 34-35mpg.

This winter during the colder weather I was barely averaging 30mpg.

In the warmer weather I am around 33 mpg.

Highway trips with the cruise set I am anywhere from 32-34 mpg at 70-75, @ 80 I am around 31mpg.

I understand driving habits and speed play a huge factor, but I am generally disappointed in my mileage.

I drive primarily highway and have seen a nice increase as it has warmed up on my commute.....but this weekend I did a pure highway trip, 400 miles round trip, no faster than 75, significant portions at only 55-60, and I got 32 round trip. Same route there and back, so any uphill there was a downhill home...

5 speed, hatchback.

I have about 11k miles on it now.

[Hawktwoe]

I've tried 70mph vs. 75mph and saw a difference of less than 1mpg. Can anyone concur?

[kam327]

Originally Posted by Hawktwoe

I've tried 70mph vs. 75mph and saw a difference of less than 1mpg. Can anyone concur?

It's gotta be way more than that. How did you measure it? If with the onboard computer I wouldn't trust it for that small a difference unless you do several 5-minute tests at each speed in both directions.

Popular Mechanics carefully measured a huge 14 mpg difference between 55 and 70mph, or almost 1mpg per mph.

I wish someone that bought the Scangauge would come up with a fuel consumption vs speed curve for this car.

[kickstand]

Originally Posted by Hawktwoe

I've tried 70mph vs. 75mph and saw a difference of less than 1mpg. Can anyone concur?

I have a 5 speed, so obviously your mileage may very, but anything between 65-75 mpg on the freeway alone according to the dash computer in my car is about a 1-2 mpg difference at best. This was across a couple hundred miles not a 5 minute test.