I Just bought a new 2011 Ford Escape and the gas mileage, in my estimation is very poor.

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Asked by cruzer9999 Dec 15, 2011 at 04:23 PM about the 2011 Ford Escape Limited AWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

The car now has 2,687 miles on it and gets just under 15 mi per gallon.  I drive primarily short distances during the week to and from work is 5 miles each way.  Once a week I drive on the highway to visit my parents 28 miles each way. So more highway miles than city miles.  I'm averaging just under 15 mi per gallon at 14.89.  I'm taking the car in for the first service next week, any suggestuins like, change to a K&N filter, check the O2 sensor, anything else?   

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papa answered 12 years ago

reason for the poor gas milage is the stop and go 5 min drive.

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Jon answered 12 years ago

Those weekly short trips to work are the worse thing for fuel mileage, I'm guessing your Escape is AWD ? that too wold make it use more than other similar SUV's that are not AWD. A K&N air filter would help but most on highway drives not much you can do to improve city fuel mileage.

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GuruTWFTC answered 5 years ago

I have a 2011 Ford Escape. I bought it in 2015 with 48,000 miles its June 17 2018 and I have 138,000 miles. I have noticed short local trips. I average 18-20 mpg. But on highways, keeping it between 60-65 I get 26-28 mpg. And I only use reg gas and I just chanced the air filter.

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Daniel Kwame answered 4 years ago

I'm looking at buying a Ford Escape 2011. Can you share how it takes to to cover the 5 miles to work, please.

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