Fuel Economy Focus 1.6 Automatic 3-Door UK

In message , MCC writes

Ouch! I get 40mpg driving briskly and up to 50mpg taking it easy.

In message , MCC wrote

I'm not much better at just over 30mpg (1.6 manual) with a 14 mile journey to or from work often taking around an hour. However my miles per gallon went up to 40 when I visited Cornwall for a week - mainly empty roads during the day in late October. :)

I got 35-40 m.p.g. when I drove home to Scotland in 2002 but local driving round here, when I hardly ever get into overdrive, just runs away with the petrol. The car is leased to me by Motability and will be due for replacement in 12 months time - come next autumn I reckon I'll be looking for something a bit more economical as a replacement. I just don't believe Ford's fuel consumption figures!

You'll get better mpg by locking out the overdrive unless your on the open road doing reasonable speed.

Tim..

That said the 1.6 auto is a dreadful combination!!

Tim..

My 2000 wagon, with its 2.0 litre SPI engine, uses just over 8 litres per

100 km. (That's combined city/highway driving in summer). That's, somewhat, poorer fuel economy than I'd hoped for. Twenty-five years ago, I owned similar cars (Nissan, Mitsubishi) that got better fuel economy. I'm surprised at the lack of progress.

BTW, in winter, my fuel economy goes into a nose dive. I could very well be burning 12 litres of fuel per 100 km. It's not unusual to see this happen, but I was expecting the Focus to be better adapted to winter driving.

Rob

Noted

What would you recommend please, Tim? The car is leased to me by Motability as I am disabled. I need automatic transmission because it makes life so much easier for me and it's all that my wife is qualified to drive. I also like the big wide doors on the 3-door - makes getting in and out if you are a big wide person easier :-)

my car is '01 wagon 1.6 liter with auto tranny. Just filled it up an hour ago. took 48.3 liters and covered 504 100% city kms. if my math is correct that is 9.6 liters/km or 25.1 mpg (USA). the temperature around here 5C at the most.

in the summer when I take long trips, its fuel economy is much better.. usually around 7.5 liters/km or 32 mpg with the ac on.

overall, I am not very impressed. 3 years ago I had a '88 chevy with

2.5 liter engine and 3 spd auto tranny that weighed 1500+ kg. I frequently got 33 mpg (highway) on that car. so, go figure!

ahmet

turkey

AFAIR the "magic" number is 285:

285 / (l/100km) = Miles per gallon 285/9.6=29.68 mpg

But I could be wrong, there are different types of gallons, and this is one of the problems. In reality those units have no meaning at all, they are no SI units, it's only people who keep using them. AFAIR sadly NASA lost one Mars mission just because of stupid failures while calculating with units.

The best I got out of my 2.0l (manual) was about 8.2 l/100km.

285/8.2=34.75 mpg

Not really impressive, thinking about my last Ford Sierra TD, with an average of 6.5 l/100km (285/6.5=43.84 mpg) and an all time min. of 4.9 l/100km (285/4.9=58.16 mpg).

But then a diesel engine is hardly comparable with a petrol one and in the end it doesn't really matter if you don't drive very much a year. Insurance + tax are much higher over here for a diesel then the equivalent petrol car.

504 / 48.3 / 1.609 * 3.785 24.54670737968492447372

(I assume you mean 7.5 liters/100km)

100 / 7.5 / 1.609 * 3.785 31.36523720737518127198

My 2000 Wagon with 2.0 Zetec and auto transmission gets roughly the same mileage as your 1.6. I also owned a '86 Buick Century with the 2.5l and and got nearly the same mileage, though the Focus has more power and is more fun to drive.

Jesus- thats dreadful!

As Paul says the manual 1.6 will do mid 30's driven hard and intown and high

40's on a long gentle cruise. In my own personnal experience, the 1.8 will do 3-4mpg less under the same circumstances.

Tim..

Erm, how about a 3 door Yaris CVT or something like that. I believe you can have it in diesel auto too.

Tim..

Well all I can say is Derv :-) As much fun as the 2.0l petrol and 500 miles to the tank every time with a good mix of motorway and town driving and its a smaller tank than the petrol models approx 52 liters I reckon I getting 49mpg most of the time.

Sadly auto/CVT isn't available with the diesel engine. I've heard excellent reports about the petrol version though. Thanks for the advice. Another 9 months before I can order my new car so I'll have plenty of time to get some test drives in before then.

I got a 1.6 2003 manual at the mo and it averages 330 miles per tank (combined) and about 400 miles on a good run but thats still 'giving it' quite alot on the motorway.

MC.

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You lot should consider yourselves lucky!!! in my Focus RS i get about

200-220 miles per tankful!!! someone i know got less then 100miles to a full tank on a track day! ;o) for your info a tank costs almost 45GBP for 98ron.

MC.

Sorry - i meant 45UKP in my last post - £45. not 45GBP :o(

MC.

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In message , Mark C. wrote

You were correct the first time

When writing on the Usenet to foreigners it's not a good idea to use the pound symbol as they may have their keyboards and language options set to something different. The symbol may appear as a black box or something completely different on their screens.

USA English is not UK English :)