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Originally Posted by redpoint5
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40/33/37
Pretty dang good considering 30 MPG is about the best a 90's Camry does.
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The current, 4-cyl Camry, non-hybrid is getting 43-mpg at 70-mph, with AC on; between Carson City, Nevada, and into California and back.
Ford is using Toyota's technology ( TRW's ).
If the Maverick were driven at a constant velocity where it returned 33-mpg, we'd have an engineering value that we could reverse-engineer some data from. The Toyota Atkinson-cycle engine is very efficient. And on the highway, on the flat, at steady cruise, the hybrid would not be contributing, making clear what the engine was contributing by itself.
When AeroStealth bought his 2014 F-150 4X4, EcoBoost we road-tested it in West Texas, finding that it returned it's EPA rated 22-mpg at a constant 65-mph, with the AC on.
That's the kind of number we'd want from the Maverick.
PS, AeroStealth also owned Ford's C-Max Energi plug-in hybrid. Commuting between home and Las Cruces, New Mexico, in the thinner air, at steady 65-mph, with AC-on, the C-Max returned around 32-mpg. We could compare curb weight, frontal area to the Maverick. C-Max is Cd 0.29.