Six inches to a foot is not that big of an increase.

A few years back I would have said it was the Galant.

Oh, yay!

Go to your happy place. Your happy place has mud and dirt and a Defender.

There’s more to the engine -> fuel economy conversion than just displacement. A turbo V6 can get the fuel economy of a V6 or the power of a V8, it can’t really get both at once. Hitting 1 bar of boost on a turbo car effectively doubles engine displacement, so for explanation purposes, a 3.5L V6 Ecoboost at 14psi may…

That is the problem with MPG instead of GPM. You use 4.76 gallons per 100 miles, while the Ford just uses 4 gallons.

Isn’t 25mpg a 19% improvement over 21mpg? Isn’t that a lot better?

I could hit 28mpg mostly highway in my 1990 Lincoln Mark VII with the 302ci v8 (per the in-car computer and manually measuring the fuel levels, generally on a trip to Appleton WI from Madison WI, or the reverse), and that was a heavy car. I dont understand why modern lighter cars with smaller “more efficient” engines…

BSFC decreases as engine size increases, which i assume leads to better mpg

Meth/heroin rampant?

In real-life highway driving, I’ve gotten 24mpg highway from a 16 Silverado 1500 4x4. Ford being excited by 23...isn’t impressive.

I replied to another comment above - I lived in ME/MA for 25+ years, moved away in 2005. Loved it up there. Spent a considerable amount of time in central and northern NH too and really enjoyed the places and the people of the area. Some of the other comments on here mention that it’s gone down hill recently. Sad.

I like to splice in footage of “Mad Max” to enhance the action!