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Ford MPG Becomes Efficient

Ford vehicles have topped their classes by demonstrating the efficiency of its vehicles in this year’s MPG Marathon located in Gloucestershire.

The new Ford Focus was driven round a 370-mile course, returned 56.3mpg – which is an improvement of over 17.6% on Ford’s published figures. The winner of its class (petrol with C02 emissions of over 120g/km), the Ford Focus Zetec 125PS with UK-built 1.6-litre engine has a declared fuel economy of 47.9mpg on a combination of urban and out of town routes.

Rally Stars Andy Dawson and Andrew Marriot using rally instincts by anticipating the road head, accelerating smoothly and changing gear correctly managed to squeeze an extra 8.4 miles out of every gallon used on the marathon.

Three Ford Transit vans also entered in the MPG Marathon won two best0in-class titles and another achieved 59mpg – which is almost 51% ahead of the short wheelbase 2.2 100PS Ford Transit ECOnetic’s normal fuel economy.

The two class winning Ford Transits – a medium wheelbase 2.2 Transit 86PS and Euro Stage 5 long wheelbase 2.2 Transit ECOnetic 125PS – improved their homologated figures by 50.78 and 40.51 per cent respectively. Ford's commercial vehicle engineers, based at Dunton Technical Centre, in Essex, piloted two of three Transits entered.