[ewanmac]

Had a Focus Ecoboost hire car for a couple of days. In some ways, a decent car: looks good, decent inside (new dashboard far better than old dixons matsui thing), rode well and very refined.

However, the 1.0 Ecoboost was very disappointing. It was terrible off the line - literally no power at all. Made you think twice pulling out at a roundabout. But the worst part was the fuel consumption. I drove from Birmingham airport to Newark and back via Leicester so mainly motorway miles at national speed limit. No real start and stop except coming out of The airport. I reset the trip computer and the average mpg was a shocking 37.9! From a 1.0 focus! My 330d would have trounced that in fact I think any 3 series would have trounced it - even a 340i.

I know these small capacity engines are renowned for significantly lower consumption than stated but 37.9mpg from motorway miles??!!

[Apl440i or 335d?]

That's shocking

I'd get that from my Focus ST.

I guess the problem is it's a bit gutless so you have to give it more throttle to keep at motorway speeds. Probably better around town?

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Yep small engine high revs = loads fuel used.

[Watsey]

Originally Posted by Brigand

Yep small engine high revs = loads fuel used.

Yep. My 330d with MPPK and a heavy right foot averages around 37mpg.

My wife's Qashqai 1.2 Dig-T driven very sedately has averaged 37mpg over 5,000 miles. Short gearing kills economy.

[SkyJawa]

I came home at warp 9 today, on winter tyres at about 7-9 degrees, and got a little over 39mpg....

[Firaxis]

Originally Posted by Apl330e

That's shocking

I'd get that from my Focus ST.

I guess the problem is it's a bit gutless so you have to give it more throttle to keep at motorway speeds. Probably better around town?

Lol, you must have feathers for feet.. I got 26 MPG out the Focus ST .

I'd agree with you though, I got better MPG out of the Focus on a motorway then my partners car (1.4 140)..

[dopper99]

My wife has a Fiesta with a 1.25 engine and although it drives well (handling wise, not performance!), is rubbish on fuel. Gets about 28-30mpg around town and my 335d is in fact more economical around town.

[Tronneh]

The missus has a Fiesta 1.0 ecoboost 125bhp version.
It sounds horrible unless your over 5k rpm, feels agricultural and lumpy and the gearing is too long. Horrible to drive in traffic, but kind of fun on the gas around back roads but thats mainly down to the chassis.
Fuel economy is bad on motorway but only OK around town.

[Steve_M_Sport]

Originally Posted by Tronneh

The missus has a Fiesta 1.0 ecoboost 125bhp version.
It sounds horrible unless your over 5k rpm, feels agricultural and lumpy and the gearing is too long. Horrible to drive in traffic, but kind of fun on the gas around back roads but thats mainly down to the chassis.
Fuel economy is bad on motorway but only OK around town.

Mine has the same car and I agree with your summing up completely - gutless unless revved hard. Economy around town is about 32mpg.

Previous car was also a Fiesta with the old inefficient CVH 1.4 petrol engine and that averaged 36mpg !

[goodbyalfa]

When I had an Alfa (last year), the garage I bought it from and used was a mixed Fiat/Alfa, so at service time they sometimes gave me a Fiat Panda, or 500 (shit I know). The Fiat 500 had the supposedly economical 1 litre twin air. On the motorway, or even around town, it was Impossible to get any kind of decent MPG. Had it for a day and got around 37 mpg mainly motorway miles, nowhere near the claimed 57mpg!
Back into my 2.0 diesel 170 Guilietta, 48 mpg without really trying.
Basically, small engines suck and should be banned as a menace to the environment!

[simon the pieman]

Originally Posted by Firaxis

Lol, you must have feathers for feet.. I got 26 MPG out the Focus ST .

I'd agree with you though, I got better MPG out of the Focus on a motorway then my partners car (1.4 140)..

Agree with that. I had an st3 with the ecoboost engine and fuel economy was shite. An e90 330i m sport I had previous to that was better.

[simon the pieman]

Originally Posted by Firaxis

Lol, you must have feathers for feet.. I got 26 MPG out the Focus ST .

I'd agree with you though, I got better MPG out of the Focus on a motorway then my partners car (1.4 140)..

Agree with that. I had an st3 with the ecoboost engine and fuel economy was shite. An e90 330i m sport I had previous to that was better.

[RobUK]

Snap! I have had a 2015 Ford Focus 1.0 Zetec 'EcoBoost' this week, courtesy of Hertz. When it was dropped off the average mpg was showing 36.7. I drove it from nr Brighton to Heathrow and back so 160 miles of all dual-carriageway & motorway, plus two trips from Heathrow to Woking and back being 34 miles per trip of mostly motorway plus the trip past the McLaren factory on the way into/out of Woking.

I zeroed the trip meter when I got the car and after about 225 miles of driving mostly motorways (aircon off, windows closed), the OBC was showing 38.1mpg! I was actually driving reasonably and not thrashing it, so allowing for the fact that these OBCs tend to be optimistic, I would be surprised if the real mpg wasn't nearer 35mpg! Given that Fuelly is currently telling me the 340i is doing around 33mpg on a mix of roads with plenty of prodding thrown in, that Focus consumption is pretty poor.

[dopper99]

And people keep saying the diesel is dead as these small turbo'd petrol engines are taking over?

[Ice Man]

Originally Posted by RobUK

Given that Fuelly is currently telling me the 340i is doing around 33mpg on a mix of roads with plenty of prodding thrown in, that Focus consumption is pretty poor.

You are averaging 33 in your 340? hmmmm I only see over 30 in my 35 on a long motorway run with me being careful. averaging mid 20's ATM ( reaches for his man maths calculator )

[Steve_M_Sport]

I'm averaging 28mpg in my F31 330D !

[ewanmac]

I'm sure it's won loads of plaudits but it's shit in the real world. Didn't even sound good either - I thought it would have a nice 3cyl noise but no.