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We bought a 15 ecoboost mustang, 6 speed manual, performance pack, for the wife. We've had it a year this month. I must say, I'm not that impressed. From a performance/ driving standpoint, it's about on par with our 01 Bullitt GT that we sold after getting the new car. The one thing it doesn't do is make fun sounds. From the inside it sounds like a Subaru, that's hard to get past being in a mustang. From an economy standpoint, neither of us can get better than about 23.5 hand calc'd in mixed driving. She drives moderately slow and tends to short-shift, and I've tried several different techniques, the most successful being very light throttle input but higher RPM shift points. Running it at or about 3k seems to be what it loves, and it will approach 24 mpg mixed driving it this way. I will not lug it around because this is not a very smooth engine, and I don't know if the trans will take the vibes and low end turbo grunt in higher gears over the long run. FYI, the lie-o-meter reads 2 mpg high, has since new. Even had the dealer do a reflash on it to try to cure it with no luck. Our car has 11k miles on it now which is very low for us. I hate driving it because the drivers seat is the prettiest, heated, cooled, perforated leather torture device I have ever seen. I bought this car hoping to have a fun car that got good mpgs and we could use for road trips, but that is not what we have. Sorry for the rant, but our car doesn't live up to the hype. We are seriously thinking about replacing it.
Travis..
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