is it true about the ford fiesta econetic

Lum

Only way you'll be getting 70+ mpg in that Fiesta will be in 6th gear at under 2000 RPM on a flat straight motorway on a cold day with no wind, or the wind behind you.

Since it's an Econetic it should have a "change up" light. Following the advice of that light will help to improve your MPG, though likely at the expense of causing people behind you to get irate about how slowly you accelerate.


FWIW, my Mondeo Econetic claims 56mpg combined and 64mpg motorway. I actually get about 41mpg, though the terrain is pretty unforgiving where I live.

Strider590

Lifes_Grand_Plan wrote: »

Have a look at http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/ to see what other owners of the same car are getting... makes very interesting reading.

What's worrying about that is that my Vectra (based on the averages) does almost the same MPG as a 1 litre Corsa! :O
And people go on about getting smaller cars!!!!!

atrixblue.-MFR-.

reading the MPG reviews on my car, i should only be acheiving in mid 20's but acheive mid 30 to 40mpg, but its easy in my car to have the aircon on when driving and not knowing it. and that being turned on drains my fuel its a very poor AC system.

Hintza

Strider590 wrote: »

Some manufacturers are worse than others,

How do you figure that out? All cars will be tested using exactly the same criteria to meet EU requirements. They will also do everything in their powers to get CO2 down as low as possible.

bazza1603

Hi,

We have just got 2 x 1.6TDCI 60 plates at work with 7k on them. Drive them very very carefully and we get 71Mpg. Normal driving low sixties...

Very nice cars!

Best regards

Barry

bigjl

If i drove my previous Legacy hard i could easily get the mpg into the twenties.

Driven normally low thirties.

However driven sedately it would edge very close to forty mpg.

It was a petrol auto and was only made in that spec for a short time, even had reduced road tax due to the reasonably emissions. No other Subaru is that economical really unless it is the diesel.

If the car is brand new it may need time to loosen up for full economy to be present.

It is either your driving style or maybe some issue like tyre pressures or maybe geometry. Even new cars can have dodgy geometry.

I have friends that have these eco type cars though not a Fiesta, and they get very good mpg.

I can easily get better than Fors claim for my Mondeo tdci. But if i drive it a bit more aggressively i can easily get it into the high thirties.

But these days on not very good budget tyres it gives high forties in my daily running around though cracked 52 mpg on a recent long run.

dannymccann

Its quite a gap between the figures, so may be worth a service or something (cant imagine it would help tbh), but I agree with a couple of posters here that it is your driving style, my 11 year old Astra DTi is quoted as getting 50mpg on a extra-urban run but if I cruise legally (65-70mph officer) it will easily achieve 60mpg or more.

Even when I drove it hard on a long commute every day (hard acceleration and overtaking) it would still achieve well over 40mpg

almillar

OP must be giving his car a hard time. Not really actually.
46mpg is UP TO 70mpg so the salesman didn't lie really. Your engine needs to loosen up in the first few thousand miles (hope you went easy on it for the first while). As has been said, the urban figure is acheived by all cars on a certain route (slow, lots of start/stopping), as is the extra urban (more high speed, less stopping/starting therefore more economical) and these produce the combined figure.
My driving usually gets around 80% of the combined figure, so I can be reasonably sure of what kind of mpg I'll get from a car before I buy it by adapting these figures to my own circumstances. I'd love to get 46 mpg...

davidjwest

My Mondeo 2.0 TDCi has averaged 56 MPG over the 60k I've had it and on the run into work was actually showing 73 MPG on the computer - this is probably more like 67 MPG in reality but still impressive for such a big car. I was doing about 60 MPH average down the motorway, just fast enough not to annoy the HGVs.



Agree with bigjl, if it's low mileage the engine might not have "loosened up" yet but I'd also check tyre pressures.