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I know none of us bought the ST for the gas milage, but the car is certainly capable of great milage. I took mine on a 500 mile trip for business and I go 37.7 MPG for the first 381 miles of the trip. That's not the dash display but doing the math. I have 40.2 displayed for the last 120 miles of the trip and the car really loves cruising. This was doing 60-65 MPH with some slower traffic due to the snow yesterday in the Northeast.

Also, I spent 10.5 hours in the recaro seats and was totally comfortable the whole way!

So glad I upgraded to this car!
 

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About 24.8 last I checked, in city commute driving.
 

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:) Same city same mileage. In 2 fillups had 24.8 and 25.0 actual mpg. Computer was 25.0 and 25.7.
Unfortunately the avg speed is about 28 mph so lots of gas burning down time.

One thing I haven't found (because I'm not a data geek like the rest of you) is a second trip distance/mpg meter.
Is there some other button other than the stalk? I haven't had a vehicle without 2 trip meters in years...

Oh yeah and I have found no functional difference in my wife's Focus Sync and the Fiesta's Ford Touch other than the pretty colors.
 

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I know none of us bought the ST for the gas milage
I definitely did include mileage as a big part of my buying decision. The FoST fell quite short of my magic number 30mpg combined. Here in winter on the econo tune I hover right around 30. I am sure that summer plus 93 octane will yield a solid 10% improvement over that in conservative driving. Keeping the foot out of the boost is the challenge :)
 

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I doubt I'll ever be able to manage 30 mpg average. Too much of my driving is city driving, and, on top of that, my FiST came with the requirement that I "put my foot in it" (the boost, that is) at regular intervals. :whistling:
 

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:) Same city same mileage. In 2 fillups had 24.8 and 25.0 actual mpg. Computer was 25.0 and 25.7.
Unfortunately the avg speed is about 28 mph so lots of gas burning down time.

One thing I haven't found (because I'm not a data geek like the rest of you) is a second trip distance/mpg meter.
Is there some other button other than the stalk? I haven't had a vehicle without 2 trip meters in years...

Oh yeah and I have found no functional difference in my wife's Focus Sync and the Fiesta's Ford Touch other than the pretty colors.
I don't know of any other on board trip computer; I too thought it odd there was only one, but there it is.

My ave speed is only 23 mph; like you said, lots of gas-burning with no movement.
 

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33.9 mpg last fill up 31mpg combined adverage
 
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