anybody drive a fiesta yet?

[bandit86]

they claim 59 mpg in the ads, anybody here have any real world figures?

[FXSTi]

Yes, but I'm guessing that you are talking about the diesel, which I can't get here in North America.

Kirk

[GRU]

as far as i can see on the canadian website, we don't get the diesel so ford claims about 48mpg highway

[bandit86]

I'm in canada and I was pretty sure they were claiming 59 mpg at the dealership. need to go look again

[FXSTi]

Does Canada still use number similar to the pre-08 epa?

Kirk

[niky]

I don't think you can get 58 (US) MPG... I've gotten highway numbers between 32-36, and I've seen long trip numbers in the 40's... 50 may be possible with hypermiling... but with the DCT and the 1.6, 58 is just dreaming.

[bandit86]

yep, I was wrong. 49 mpg, 4.8/100km claimed. I kind of thought those are numbers too magical to achieve in real life

[brucepick]

In the US, the EPA shows the best version of the 2012 Fiesta is the SFE "trim" level.
29 mpg City, 40 Highway, 33 combined. Auto trans only. The other version is available in both auto and standard, but the manual is only 29 mpg City, 38 Highway, 33 combined. Very likely that you could more easily hypermile the 5-speed than the auto-only SFE, and might end up doing better with that version than the SFE.

Gas Mileage of 2012 Ford Fiesta

[FXSTi]

For those who might be interested, CleanMPG Reviews the 2011 Ford Fiesta - CleanMPG Forums

I can't wait until the weather warms up a bit.

Kirk

[2012fiesta]

it's pretty great. i definately find it to be st up well for hypermiling.. which is not something i really have ever thought about at all. the six speed is really shifty through low gears and i find it to be generally unfriendly to getting slammed around...it pays to anticipate everything. the fiesta is my wife's, and i've got a 1985 f250 diesel. i end up driving them a lot the same.. . still learning the shift points. it likes to stay in sixth gear if you can let it, and really anywhere near 50 it'll stay there. like i read somewhere else backing off the gas up hills, and rolling into it so that you can, works out well. like you were on a bike, or in my case an old ass diesel truck with an ancient 4 speed tranny that don't like getting shifted on a hill. anyway under light throttle it seems really torquey at low revs, but it'll shift if you make it have to even a little... not like the truck. in the fiesta at 48-52mph cruising on a state road it's doing like 1700 revs. it may as well be idling. i drove from central mass to southern NH on a mix of interstate and state highways with a good bit of hilliness, about an hour and a half each way with very little traffic and got 44 mpg. but then i suspect that might get harder at 70 mph on a longer trip.. to some degree if it's already in sixth at 48 then there's no huge benefit to giving it a lot more air resistance. once you're paying attention at around 50 you can just feel it making miles with very little gas. i think we're doing like five hours twice soon on the interstate and i want to run it at 55 for a couple hours and then see if the average drops and how much at 70. also the car has cruise control and i think i do better without it. although i suppose it would work better on a flatter road.
also don't shift into neutral in an automatic for hypermiling it is dangerous and uses MORE gas... just ease off the gas gently.