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Originally Posted by vztrt
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Though, if the old 4.0-litre V6 consumed 16.8L/100km in the city and 11.7L/100km on the highway, then the new EcoBoost two litre would use 13L/100km in the city and 9L/100km on the highway. Not bad for a big wagon.
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That car advice article had some incorrect maths... They divided the figure by 1.30 which equates to a 0.77 or a 23% improvement. A 30% reduction needs to multiply the figures by 0.70 instead.
The figures would be a much better 11.8L/100km city and 8.2L/100km highway.
The FG Falcon is 13.8/7.6 city/hwy & 9.9 combined.
The SY2 Territory is 12.5 AWD & 11.6 RWD combined figures only.
The weighting seems to be 60/40 city/hwy when it comes to arriving at the combined figure for FG in both NA & turbo guise.
On that basis the Eco-Boost Explorer could have a 9.6 combined figure. Remembering that this is probably based on FWD.
Anyway, the Eco-boost 2.0T4 is proving to be a very good engine. Looking forward to how in goes in Falcon in 2011!