I have followed this forum since I was starting to get excited about seeing a Ford Escape platform with a pickup bed, at the time of starting to follow these forums, I owned a 2006 Mercury Mariner V6 (now going to my daughter)and a 2013 Ford C-Max Plug-In hybrid (being sold to my Aunt). I...
The 33MPG at 85MPH is respectable, I own a 2013 Ford C-Max plug-in hybrid, when we take it on a long vacation and travel across the USA, we usually have 4 of us and luggage, the car weighs about 5000lbs loaded and at the same speed as the original poster, I only see up to 24MPG at those speeds.
Thanks for this, I currently have a 2013 C-Max Energi (PHEV), fully loaded and at speeds similar to what you posted, I got between 22 & 25MPG calculated.
While I really wanted my maverick to be built and hopefully delivered by May, since my daughter will be taking our old 2006 Mercury Mariner (ford escape), My wife and decided to go with a minivan so that my son could have some legroom, my son is 6'3" tall at 14 and doesn't show signs of...