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Old 05-17-2015, 12:08 AM   #7 (permalink)
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The New Focus - '07 Ford Focus ZX5
90 day: 32.44 mpg (US)
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The Escort and Focus share nothing in common other than the MTX75 manual trans and the early Foci using up the last of the split port single can engines that the Escorts used. My 07 and the 08-11 Foci both have 2.0 Duratec DOHC engines but 2 people at my work have 09s and say they get high 30s for MPG where as I'm pushing my car to get that. Even though same engines, I swear there has to be something different in the engine or computer that has them getting better without effort. Of course, it could also be that they are not checking MPG correctly or consistently and are feeding me false information lol.

Great job with such high numbers in an unfamiliar car! I just stepped into the 40mpg realm and hope to stay there but seems the weather is a big factor with these cars.
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2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014

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