sdalencon

I have had my 2013 Fusion Ti AWD for a little over a year now. I have tracked about 2/3s of my gasoline purchases and mileage via Fuelly (www.fuelly.com). I now have just under 10,000 miles. I really, really like what Ford did with the Fusion - it drives great, is extremely comfortable, the adaptive cruise control is fantastic - net, net, it's a lot of bang for the buck….except when it comes to gas mileage. I was considering a number of AWD cars when I bought the Fusion and a key data point that convinced me to take a risk on the new Ford were the published numbers of 22 City, 31 Highway, 25 Combined. Fuelly shows that I've driven 62% city, 28% highway over the past year. My average MPG over more than 6,000 miles is 18.0 MPG, with a best ever of 21.5MPG. And that 21.5 was coming down from Lake Tahoe to San Francisco, so it was all highway and half of it was downhill. I have only filled the tank with Chevron Supreme 91 octane. If I knew these figures ahead of time, there is no way I would have purchased this Fusion, no matter how nice everything else is (and it is nice). It sounds like others have gotten better mileage, but given that Ford took a black eye on the C-Max and Fusion Energi MPG numbers - http://insideevs.com/ford-fusion-energi-quietly-rated-at-21-miles-range-and-43-mpg/ - I'm beginning to think the Fusion AWD numbers have been smoke, too.