Originally Posted By: ccap41
Originally Posted By: Miller88
Originally Posted By: ccap41
I currently own a Ford Escape with the 2.0 and love it. Oh, it's AWD as well.
The fuel mileage can be very polarizing. From my experience winter blend fuel really hurts economy. I'm not a fast driver I will hover right around the speed limit and in the winter months, on top of cold starts and the vehicle warming up. I noticed an easy 2-3mpg hit over the winter and instantly on my first take that apparently had summer blend in it because it was the first significant jump in fuel economy and it hasn't fallen out of the ordinary since. My Escape currently has about 42k miles on it(I bought it with 34k) and haven’t had any issues. Here is a link to my Fuelly page and you can skim around and check out the winter/summer difference.
ccap's fuelly page
The power is adequate and will keep the enthusiast “entertained”. It obviously isn’t actually fast but it isn’t a dog either. Good passing power when you want it, good fuel economy when you want it. Set the cruise at 50mph and you’ll get 32mpg. Cruise around 75+ and you’re looking more at the epa ratings of 28mpg. Some still claim 30+mpg at those speeds but I call [censored]. I live in southern Illinois where the land is pretty dang flat and if there is a place to get good mpg here would be one of them. I’m not a sucker for the 91/93 octane fuel as there isn’t enough benefit or the additional cost. I actually run mid grade and that is just because I don’t feel like turbo cars should be utilizing the absolute minimum, that is just personal feeling though. But, I do always use a top tier station(one reason I don’t use premium as top tier stations are usually $0.30-0.50/gallon more than regular). I also only get to use 10% ethanol blended(junk) fuel here and many other Escape owners claim decent gains if you can use 100% gasoline fuel.
Any other questions about the new gen Escape feel free to ask. I can at least try and help you out.
Try the 91 for a bit and see what happens. After a few months I managed to convince my parents to run 91. The jump in mileage makes it a bit cheaper to run 91 octane gas. It's only like $20 per 1000 miles, but it is not more expensive.
Is that 91 octane 100% gasoline or contain 10% ethanol? Because I initially started with 87 octance as a little baseline, then I went up to 89, and I've tried 91 a couple times with no real significant different to justify any cost gains. But..I have heard good things about the 91/93 octane that is 100% gas.
I'll give it another shot though.
You bring up a good point. It's 91 ethanol free for everyday driving as they live 2 miles from a station that sells 91 ethanol free. There's a bigger price prmium for 91 ethanol free but it still comes out slightly cheaper. On trips we have used 10% ethanol 91 and didn't notice much of a mileage hit - it was still 30MPG cruising on the 91/10 , same as the 91/0.
I don't know the geography of where you are located, but there are a lot of hills here. The 2.0L has ridiculously tall gearing - 3.07 I believe - and it is always running at
My suspicion is that there would not be as significant of an improvement in an area that isn't as hilly.
Before they started using 91 in the Escape, I learned I was able to get better mileage out of it by dropping a gear or two using the select-shift on hills. It was running a higher RPM but not overfueling to prevent detonation. It's probably better for the intake valves - less fuel into the cylinders and past the rings is less junk on the intake valves.
Winter? All bets are off. They idle the thing for 25 minutes every morning before my mother's 20 minute commute to work.
