No, not at all. It's the tradeoff for all that torque & HP from a tiny 4 cyl engine. The turbos inject a highly pressurized fuel mix into the combustion tract to get the higher power numbers and uses more fuel doing it. Also, the turbos have to be driven somehow. I don't know if they are gear driven or belt or what here but they have to use the rotation of the crankshaft in some manner to spin the turbos and that adds drag/load on the engine. Also, the AWD has to convert a single source of spinning motion to 4 separate spinning locations- more drag/load on the drivetrain. I think I read Mav has electric power steering which is now a common way to take load off the crank as there is no belt and pully added anymore to drive the old pump. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on any of that. About the only other thing Ford might do to improve MPG is go to aluminum body (at least panels like hood, tailgate, doors) like on F-15- but they won't be selling them starting at $20k anymore if they did.
Superchargers are gear or belt driven while turbos are driven by exhaust gas.
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