1.0 Ecoboost Focus fuel economy
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Reading this I'm so jealous all you Guy's getting decent economy figure's with eco boost engine.I lumbered myself with 15 plate titanium 1.6 petrol (non ecoboost) automatic. Its mainly used round London stopping and starting traffic but even so its average of 21.8 mpg over 7500 miles is pretty disappointing.am considering 240 bhp Mondeo next year with power shift wonder how low I can average in that.
I did a 450 mile (one ten minute stop) run in mine yesterday from N coast of Scotland.Nearly all single carriageway - maybe 40 miles of dual. Pressed on and only overtaken once (by an AMG C Class at that )- 45mph average and 45mpg . Not bad at all - engine just gets smoother with the miles.
Holly bump batman..
Our Fiesta Tx 125 is at 13k miles and averaging 40.6mpg. Fun little car but quite disapointed with the fuel consumption. This is a mixture of A road and motorway.
Engine note is great but it has no more after 70.
The 2.0dci Laguna Estate parked next to it is averaging 48.7.
Our Fiesta Tx 125 is at 13k miles and averaging 40.6mpg. Fun little car but quite disapointed with the fuel consumption. This is a mixture of A road and motorway.
Engine note is great but it has no more after 70.
The 2.0dci Laguna Estate parked next to it is averaging 48.7.
In my ex wife's fiesta 125 ecoboost I was getting about 37 maybe 38mpg real world. She drove it more sensibly then me. I loved the car, very quick and fun to drive. Currently considering a 2.0 ecoboost focus St estate.
Don't care so much about mpg in that, if you want mpg then get a boring small car and drive like a pensioner, or get a diesel for short journeys and spend loads of spare cash replacing dpf filters and injectors.
Don't care so much about mpg in that, if you want mpg then get a boring small car and drive like a pensioner, or get a diesel for short journeys and spend loads of spare cash replacing dpf filters and injectors.
HairyMaclary said:
Holly bump batman..
Our Fiesta Tx 125 is at 13k miles and averaging 40.6mpg. Fun little car but quite disapointed with the fuel consumption. This is a mixture of A road and motorway.
Engine note is great but it has no more after 70.
I'd suggest there's something wrong with it. On fast A roads and Motorways our Fiesta will easily crack 50mpg, and a 20 mile run on the M62 recently gave me 68mpg.Our Fiesta Tx 125 is at 13k miles and averaging 40.6mpg. Fun little car but quite disapointed with the fuel consumption. This is a mixture of A road and motorway.
Engine note is great but it has no more after 70.
Mine will easily crack 100mph. Ok not the fastest car in the world but to suggest it's got nothing more to give after 70mph makes me think there's something wrong with yours.
Had the car out for a run today to Bridlington from South Yorkshire
Filled up at Tesco. Momentum 99.
Currently done 150 miles and averaged 37.9 mpg.
Fitted new Vredestein ultrac satin tyres all round.
Running bluefin remap. And fitted new ngk plugs last week.
To say I'm impressed would be an understatement.
2.0 ecoboost st 250 probably running around 280 bhp.
Filled up at Tesco. Momentum 99.
Currently done 150 miles and averaged 37.9 mpg.
Fitted new Vredestein ultrac satin tyres all round.
Running bluefin remap. And fitted new ngk plugs last week.
To say I'm impressed would be an understatement.
2.0 ecoboost st 250 probably running around 280 bhp.
I'm thinking of getting a Focus for my commute. It's shocking to hear how bad the economy is in this thread. My Toyota Corolla 2002, with 173k miles on it and slowly dying, still gets 38mpg, yet the latest Focus can't?
I have a BMW 430d - yes a 3 litre engine with 254bhp and 0-60mph of 5.4s - and it's doing 42mpg. What gives - if I'm getting a low powered 115bhp car, surely it should have fuel economy to boot? Which engine would you guys recommend?
I have a BMW 430d - yes a 3 litre engine with 254bhp and 0-60mph of 5.4s - and it's doing 42mpg. What gives - if I'm getting a low powered 115bhp car, surely it should have fuel economy to boot? Which engine would you guys recommend?
Edited by silent ninja on Friday 24th February 22:11
It can easily do 40 plus - mine now doing 44+ overall. Little rural stuff but quick progress.I have said before on this thread- rev it hard in first 3 gears (only car I regularly use 1st in town driving - not just setting off) and use the lack of engine braking in top 3, especially .
Four year from the OP, be interesting to see where they sit now?
We are thinking of going for one of these, probably not the ST. Using a 1.6tdci Fiesta at the moment however that was bought for a 40 mile motorway commute that is no longer done. Petrol for the short stuff now. Main concern is getting something with similar oomph. I have had 1.0 1.whatever etc. hire cars before (not ford) and they have been scary slow with no power, now I know why my van is better than many joining a motorway.
How do these 90, 100,125 PS compare today?
Might be trying to beat the new tax regs.
We are thinking of going for one of these, probably not the ST. Using a 1.6tdci Fiesta at the moment however that was bought for a 40 mile motorway commute that is no longer done. Petrol for the short stuff now. Main concern is getting something with similar oomph. I have had 1.0 1.whatever etc. hire cars before (not ford) and they have been scary slow with no power, now I know why my van is better than many joining a motorway.
How do these 90, 100,125 PS compare today?
Might be trying to beat the new tax regs.
125 Focus feels juts dog slow at first if you have come from a diesel, as I had ; but stick with it and you may love it, as I do . Hang on to second to 50, 3rd to 75 etc and you will make excellent progress- I am rarely overtaken. In absolute terms it is a car of merely adequate performance , but that is only half the story . It is so smooth and makes such nice noises under hard acceleration that you can forgive it for not exercising your neck muscles too much. And 90plus cruising is near silent ....
kapiteinlangzaam said:
It passes the slip road test. Even when 4 up with a boot full of stuff.
It won't feel anywhere near as quick as a torque slugger diesel, but you have to drive it to its strengths.
Thanks. Good to know. We re considered the oil burner but the long commutes are not there anymore (not my commute). And looks like the diesel is going to be hammered in time to come. Clapometer is on 50mpg at the moment, 104,000 on the clock. Not too bad.It won't feel anywhere near as quick as a torque slugger diesel, but you have to drive it to its strengths.
coppice said:
125 Focus feels juts dog slow at first if you have come from a diesel, as I had ; but stick with it and you may love it, as I do . Hang on to second to 50, 3rd to 75 etc and you will make excellent progress- I am rarely overtaken. In absolute terms it is a car of merely adequate performance , but that is only half the story . It is so smooth and makes such nice noises under hard acceleration that you can forgive it for not exercising your neck muscles too much. And 90plus cruising is near silent ....
Surely this results in crappy fuel economy? I'm not expecting 50+mpg but if it can't get 40 that's a bit of a failuresilent ninja said:
coppice said:
125 Focus feels juts dog slow at first if you have come from a diesel, as I had ; but stick with it and you may love it, as I do . Hang on to second to 50, 3rd to 75 etc and you will make excellent progress- I am rarely overtaken. In absolute terms it is a car of merely adequate performance , but that is only half the story . It is so smooth and makes such nice noises under hard acceleration that you can forgive it for not exercising your neck muscles too much. And 90plus cruising is near silent ....
Surely this results in crappy fuel economy? I'm not expecting 50+mpg but if it can't get 40 that's a bit of a failureYou'd think so wouldn't you , and so did I . In my first few weeks I drove it in a fashion which reflected all the bulls
t about its flexibility - it will pull a high gear without complaint at absurdly low revs but it won't accelerate in any meaningful way at all from such revs - as common sense would suggest. Anyway , I was getting a poor 36-38mpg driving like that and I did so after years of turbo diesel shove.But ...once I started exploiting its high rev smoothness I found myself staying in 2nd til 45-50 and 3rd until 70 plus (and often rather more ) , as well as using first for town driving up to 25ish. It sounds counter-intutive for economy but the mpg improved hugely. Last night, for example , I came back from a gig 60 miles away at speeds which would have meant several points - 4up and 44mpg . Average for last 5k miles has been 44-45mpg .
It's such a mainstream car , near ubiquitous , that it seems odd to say it does demand a fairly unusual driving technique to get the best from it but that is the case. Redline it often in low gears and exploit quiet (and engine braking free) high gears. Never thought I'd like a daily driver so much since my Golf GTis of the 80s but the ecoboost is a little belter.
Somebody will be along soon to sneer at my plebian taste ....
coppice said:
You'd think so wouldn't you , and so did I . In my first few weeks I drove it in a fashion which reflected all the bullst about its flexibility - it will pull a high gear without complaint at absurdly low revs but it won't accelerate in any meaningful way at all from such revs - as common sense would suggest. Anyway , I was getting a poor 36-38mpg driving like that and I did so after years of turbo diesel shove.
But ...once I started exploiting its high rev smoothness I found myself staying in 2nd til 45-50 and 3rd until 70 plus (and often rather more ) , as well as using first for town driving up to 25ish. It sounds counter-intutive for economy but the mpg improved hugely. Last night, for example , I came back from a gig 60 miles away at speeds which would have meant several points - 4up and 44mpg . Average for last 5k miles has been 44-45mpg .
It's such a mainstream car , near ubiquitous , that it seems odd to say it does demand a fairly unusual driving technique to get the best from it but that is the case. Redline it often in low gears and exploit quiet (and engine braking free) high gears. Never thought I'd like a daily driver so much since my Golf GTis of the 80s but the ecoboost is a little belter.
Somebody will be along soon to sneer at my plebian taste ....
I've got the Fiesta and mine is only 100bhp which I thought wouldn't be enough but it's brilliant.t about its flexibility - it will pull a high gear without complaint at absurdly low revs but it won't accelerate in any meaningful way at all from such revs - as common sense would suggest. Anyway , I was getting a poor 36-38mpg driving like that and I did so after years of turbo diesel shove.But ...once I started exploiting its high rev smoothness I found myself staying in 2nd til 45-50 and 3rd until 70 plus (and often rather more ) , as well as using first for town driving up to 25ish. It sounds counter-intutive for economy but the mpg improved hugely. Last night, for example , I came back from a gig 60 miles away at speeds which would have meant several points - 4up and 44mpg . Average for last 5k miles has been 44-45mpg .
It's such a mainstream car , near ubiquitous , that it seems odd to say it does demand a fairly unusual driving technique to get the best from it but that is the case. Redline it often in low gears and exploit quiet (and engine braking free) high gears. Never thought I'd like a daily driver so much since my Golf GTis of the 80s but the ecoboost is a little belter.
Somebody will be along soon to sneer at my plebian taste ....
I would say it's got just enough power. Meaning I can give it a good thrashing without getting into silly speeds, and the chassis and suspension are brilliant too.
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