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Whats your MPG??

Zetec would get like 28 in the city during the warmer months, closer to 24-25 in the winter.

best I had ever seen was near as makes no difference 36 mpg straight freeway driving between 65 and 75 miles per hour. w00t for 500 miles to a tank :D
 
I'm getting the about 250 or so to a tank, 90% city driving.
I think some of that is my fault, I was used to a car that had torque.

I got better millage in my cam'ed 3.8 :nonono::nonono:
 
im getting about 250 on E but i like to rev high. i pretty much get the same mileage if i baby it or if i ride it hard. havent tested highway mileage yet. by the way i have a 3L as of november... sadly when it gets warmer i get the same mileage or better that i got with my 2.5 and i have some emissions CELs.

you are not alone.
 
Whats everybody's shift points for daily driving? Like I said before I bring it up to 3750 sometimes 4, but I'm not punching the gas to get there, Its a steady increase and a nice slow shift. I don't want to shift too low because that would have negative effects on gas mileage as well. And shifting too high...well yeah. I knew the happy medium shift points in my mazda, and I just kind of guessed at the happy medium in this. :shrug:
 
WHEELSPIN said:
I usually shift between 2300-2700 rpm
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same here, there is no point in winding up the motor in daily driving unless you are passing someone or jumping on the freeway, if people get pissed because you aren't accelerating fast enough, thats their own problem, its not like taking 10 more seconds to get up to 40 is going to make them late for an appointment.
 
:shrug: I got 22 mpg when I filled up this morning. This tank included over an hour of idling because I was stuck fixing someones car on campus and we used my car the interior space heater cause it was cold as hell. :nonono:

Thats with a mix of a highway, rural 45-50 roads, and city driving on my automatic. I wind the thing out to 4-5K in normal driving if I feel like it(oh the OD button :cool: ) Speeds normal for the highway traffic around 65-70.

If I neglect the hour of indling I get around 23-24 winter and 24-26 summer. The carlisle '07 trip I got 26.5mpg with all the time sitting in traffic.
 
So far mine has returned 22 on ancient gas according to the trip odometer when I bought it, I got 28 out of it on one tank and that was 60% highway, and the last fill-up was 24mpg at mostly 30mph.

One thing I've learned about getting crazy mpg #s out of cars is to drive them at the slowest speed possible in the highest gear. Also if you keep the engine around it's torque peak it's a bit more economical, but with the peaks on our engines being so high I'm not so sure. I'm used to pushrod sixes and eights that make max torque at ~2000 rpm.

My Explorer will nail 30mpg at 55mph and at a steady 65 will return 27! Drive it at 100+mph and it's mileage drops to about 17mpg. It's intown mileage sucks though, I routinely get 12-15mpg out of it.
 
I dont know about that in your explorer, my dad had a 97 explorer sport with the same motor, he is the most economical drive alive, as far as hes concerned motors redline at 2000 rpms, and the most he was ever able to achieve out of his explorer was 22mpg, and that was on a roadtrip, all highway doing 60 the entire way.
 
As the saying goes, "your mileage may vary". The biggest factor is the driver in determining mileage. I get better mileage out of my parents (both in their mid-late 60s) cars than they do so it's all in the driver (04 Buick Rendezvous and 07 GMC Canyon).

Back on subject, I filled up the Contour again (needs a fuel pump or the pickup cleaned badly) as it can only go about a 1/2 tank or so before threatening to stall out and it was getting 25mpg running around town.

It may go on a trip to Amarillo this weekend and we'll see what a box-stock Contour gets with me driving, or it'll stay at home and the Explorer goes, depends on how many people are going with me to a basketball game.
 
My daily commute is country back roads usually traveling around 50-55 mph (38 miles round trip). With normal driving shifting 3k-3,500 rpm's, I get 25-27 mpg with this winter gas mix. Even pure highway driving doing 75 mph, the car seems to get 25-26 mpg. It's funny really. My mpg is almost dead consistant. I usually get 320-330 miles on a tank till the light comes on.
 
I drive the car primarily across the state of Michigan coupled with some suburban (to me) driving in Flint and the surrounding areas. I shift around 3000-4000 RPM generally, but 6500-7000 would be nothing uncommon for me. I drive 80-90 on the interstate, and that combined with the city driving produces about 21 MPG for me lately running with this "ethanol cat-piss" (lol) blend. Lately it has been VERY cold here though and I let the car idle A LOT to warm up. When I drove the car from Texas to Michigan, I was getting 29 going 87 the whole way. I used to generally see about 25-28 mixed use.
 
I magically got 310 miles on this tank, filled it up with 13.1 gallons and pretty much drove my normal trip to and from Lansing a couple times I was pushin 80-85. Its only 23 mpg, but shucks, its better than then 19-21 i've been getting.
 
Mine has been 20-22 lately with as cold as it has been. Cold = warming up for 10/15 minutes every morning! The wife doesn't want me taking the little one to day care in a refrigerator on wheels! :laugh:
Last summer I was getting in the 26 range. I like spirited driving every now and then. I do agree with some others though about gearing. I have the option to take a 55 mph highway or the 70 mph interstate. I generally take the interstate although it is 5 miles out of the way, but my mileage definitely suffers. :blackeye:
Erick --
 
When I first bought my Cougar (v6 5 speed) I got 38.8mpg the entire trip home. I had about 400 miles driving straight through and arrived home with a quarter tank :cool: Though this was 55 mph with no stops for 400 miles.

Now that I've got it home I average about 26-27 highway winter and am expecting 30-32 summer because I have SVT cams and higher compression now :o

From my experience it's all in the speed. The cougar's have a digital mpg calculator so I play with it a lot. If I reset it and drive at 55 I can get over 30 mpg. If I do the same thing at 75 it's a little over 25 :laugh: If you want good gas mileage drive 55mph rather than 75 it makes all the difference.

Also if you're tires are under-inflated your gas mileage will suffer considerably.
 
im going to Illinois thursday and i plan to take it a little slower than usual to see if i get better gas mileage. i am also on my first trip with the 3L so i have no idea how it will perform... got 26-27 with my 2.5L and a p0420 CEL now i have no egr and have a few codes poopy mileage in city but we will see. im crossing my fingers on this one
 
31 and change HWY; 28 or so "mixed" driving. I usually drive 70 on intersataes, and speed limit+5-10 in town and generally accelerate more briskly than 80% or so of fellow drivers.

That's from a Zetec, MTX, no AC, so it's probably close to the theoretical max. (Though I'd be interested to see what a tuned exhaust *tuned to HWY cruise RPMs* would do for MPG--it usually gets 5-10% increase in range in piston aircraft, but they usually have poorly-engineered exhausts.)
 
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Today I drove 311 miles round trip on two lane highway. Average speed 70 mph with cruise control. Lots of Highway patrol. Used 10.74 gallons of 88 octane. 28.96 mpg. Town mileages sucks. Having problem with high idle. v-6 with 93,000 manual trans.
 
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