Report: 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid to get up to 48 mpg city?

Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Ford , Lincoln , Rumormill 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery While Ford is busy busting its you-know-what to prep its next-gen CD4 vehicles – the Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ here in the States and the Ford Mondeo in other markets – for launch, the team of Blue Oval engineers assigned to development of the updated Fusion Hybrid is reportedly hard at work reducing the gas-electric’s fuel consumption. A report from Ford Inside News suggests that the Fusion Hybrid’s revised powertrain, which will most likely feature Ford’s fuel-saving e-CVT trans , will bump the vehicle’s fuel economy rating all the way up to 47 or 48 miles per gallon city. If true, that would be a healthy increase over the 2011 Fusion Hybrid’s 41 mpg city rating, which is already class leading. Since the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid will make use of the same hardware, this means that the gas-electric MKZ is almost sure to have an identical mpg rating

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Report: 2012 Ford Fusion Hybrid to get up to 48 mpg highway?

Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Ford , Lincoln , Rumormill 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery While Ford is busy busting its you-know-what to prep its next-gen CD4 vehicles – the Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ here in the States and the Ford Mondeo in other markets – for launch, the team of Blue Oval engineers assigned to development of the updated Fusion Hybrid is reportedly hard at work reducing the gas-electric’s fuel consumption. A report from Ford Inside News suggests that the Fusion Hybrid’s revised powertrain, which will most likely feature Ford’s fuel-saving e-CVT trans , will bump the vehicle’s fuel economy rating all the way up to 47 or 48 miles per gallon highway. If true, that would be a healthy increase over the 2011 Fusion Hybrid’s 41 mpg highway rating, which is already class leading. Since the Lincoln MKZ Hybrid will make use of the same hardware, this means that the gas-electric MKZ is almost sure to have an identical mpg rating

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Consumer Reports releases 2011 list of American Top Picks, Ford again on top

Filed under: Car Buying , Etc. , Ford Ford Fusion Hybrid – Click above for high-res image gallery For the second year running , the Ford Fusion has not only come out as the top family sedan pick in Consumer Reports ‘ list of the 2011 American Top Picks, once again eclipsing the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry in reliability. Topping the list in the budget car segment is the Ford Fiesta , though CR admits they aren’t sure how reliable the car will be, given that it’s a clean-sheet design.

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Ford Fusion will be brand’s first 200,000-unit car since 2004

Filed under: Car Buying , Sedan , Ford , Earnings/Financials 2010 Ford Fusion Sport – Click above for high-res image gallery According to Ward’s Auto , Ford is about to stride past a production figure that it hasn’t hit since 2004. The 2011 Fusion is on the cusp of motoring past 200,000 sales this year – an annual number that a FoMoCo passenger sedan hasn’t managed to exceed since both the Focus sedan and Taurus did the deed back in ’04. In 2010, Fusion sales were up 21.5 percent through November compared to 2009 – hitting 196,590 units.

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Report: Ford Fusion Hybrid pays off quickest

Filed under: Car Buying , Hybrid , Sedan , Ford 2010 Ford Fusion – Click above for to enlarge For about the first 110 years of the automobile, the gold standard of eco-thriftiness was a car’s miles-per-gallon rating. With the rise of hybrids, plug-ins, biofuels and the like, cost-per-mile might be the better measurement of road-going value. The idea is simple: if a car is powered by a Mr. Fusion or Dilithium crystals or the laughter of children and only costs $.01 per mile to operate but it carries a sticker price of $500,000, its efficiency is never going to balance out its initial cost.

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Report: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid will debut in New York

Filed under: New York Auto Show , Hybrid , Ford , Lincoln When we take a hard look at the current Lincoln lineup, we see some issues. For starters, the Navigator , MKS , MKT , MKX and MKZ aren’t exactly setting the sales charts on fire. Come to think of it, we just listed the entire Lincoln lineup. Okay, so Ford’s luxury marquee can easily be likened to a well-heeled slice of Swiss cheese, but we have proof that The Blue Oval is trying to breath new life into the brand

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