puppybone69

P.S.: If you're waiting till E to fill up, and you're not putting in 14-16 gallons when you do, I'd definitely be raising hell! At some point, I'll wait till E to fill up to verify this for you, but so far from what I can tell, this should always be the case, if you don't have a problem with your car!

OK, I checked all my receipts, and filling up at roughly half tank intervals I've been putting in 6-8 gallons, at roughly quarter tank intervals I've been putting in 10-12 gallons, so I'm pretty sure that I'm getting my full 16.5 gallon capacity without any problems. Also, for those of you not getting the gas mileage that you should be getting, perhaps you should try filling up before E and calculate it that way. The worst mileage I got was about 20mpg, waiting till a quarter tank to fill up, and the best mileage I got was about 40mpg, filling up after using only a quarter tank, so it seems the longer you wait to fill up the worse your mileage is gonna get. Filling up at half tank intervals produces fairly consistent 30mpg results for me, so I don't see why it would be any different for anyone else driving a 2.0 unless you only know two speeds, floor the gas and floor the brakes. Otherwise, you should get roughly what the car is rated at, or better. Mine is rated at 22/33/26, and I'm generally getting 24/35/28 at best and 20/31/24 at worst, so if that's not the case for you, either your car has a serious problem, or your driving and/or refueling habits do. I believe those of you having problems are indeed having real problems though, which definitely affects your mileage. As for what's causing them, I have no idea, but apparently 11-30-12 (a Friday) was a good day for Deep Impact Blue 2.0 SE's with moonroofs!

I found this thread somewhat accidentally, trying to figure out if I have a problem with my car or not. Now I'm gonna have to monitor it a bit more closely. I have every receipt for every fillup, minus the first one when the salesman went with me to give me my first full tank of gas. I usually fill up at half a tank, but on a few trips I filled up at a quarter tank. As far as I can tell, I have a 16.5 gallon tank, and each quarter tank increment represents 4 gallons. I'll have to check my receipts to be sure, but as I recall my half tank fillups put in about 8 gallons and my quarter tank fillups put in about 12 gallons, so I think it's pretty safe to assume that letting it go all the way down to E would result in a 16 gallon fillup. I know for sure on a recent fillup while traveling, my car showed 120 miles to E and a quarter tank remaining, and I'm getting about 30mpg everywhere I go, city and/or highway, so that reading supports my belief that everything is as it should be expected. By the way, that particular fillup showed 500 miles to E after refueling! Anyhow, the reason why I'm wondering if my car has a problem or not now is my last couple of fillups. My guage always goes to F after I fill it up, but the last couple of times, it moved off of F almost immediately, and continued to move much further away from F than it should have, given the very short distance traveled. Interestingly, I never noticed this happening until after one fillup at which I didn't fill it all the way up to F, as I was just using up the remainder of a gas card at that time. So I wonder if any of these issues have something to do with our fillup habits? My car can only be filled up slowly, and that has always been the case. I wouldn't say it's unusually slow to fill it up though, it just clicks off if I try to fill it up fast. Also, I've never even filled it up to 2 clicks before, I just top it off to an even dollar amount after the first click, and off I go with my gauge all the way up to F, merrily on my way. My car's build date is 11-30-12 and it's an SE 2.0 with no MyFord touch. I'll go through all my receipts and report what I find, if it helps any. I still have no complaints though. After 3 months and 3000 miles on only $300 worth of gas, I'm just thrilled to have a new economical car!

Deep Impact Blue, moon roof, splash guards, limo tinted windows, Titanium tail lights

OK, so it took two more weeks, instead of just one more. My new Ford Fusion finally arrived at the dealer today, and I'm picking it up tomorrow! WOOHOO!

Well I finally heard back from my dealer about it. It's totally doable! The parts, labor and all is only $900 to do it, so I'm going for it! Now the only outwardly visible differences between my SE and a Titanium will be the chrome door handles and the chrome trim all the way around the side windows, since I got the SE appearance package instead of the luxury package, and of course the name badges. Say what you will, but I think the Titanium tail lights make for a much safer car at night, since they light up way more than the SE tail lights do. If you've ever had somebody rear end you while sitting at a stop light at night, because the other driver "didn't see you" like I have, you'd understand it. It's not just because they look better! That's just a happy bonus that will make my SE different from every other SE on the road, and of course at night it'll look like a Titanium!

Ford is supposedly developing a 2.5 V6 EcoBoost for the Fusion and a 2.7 V6 EcoBoost for the MKZ, both of which will be released in 2014 or 2015. My guess is the 2.5 V6 will only be available in the new Fusion ST/SHO. So I'm only gonna have the fastest Fusion available for a year or two, and then it's gonna become a turtle! It really makes me mad that they didn't have the new V6 ready for the 2013 rollout, so I could've gotten a much faster new Fusion!

Motor Trend says the 2.0 with AWD does 0-60 in 6.8, so with FWD it should do 0-60 in 6.6, and you'll certainly never look any better hauling ass in it!

After nearly 9 weeks of waiting for it, I finally have an estimated delivery date for my new Fusion! 12-20-2012, only one week from today! If I'm able to pick it up on 12-22-12, it will be exactly 10 weeks since I placed my order. Looks like I may actually get my new car right before Christmas! If that happens, that means I'll be spending my birthday driving around in it on New Year's Eve!

I think I'm gonna request that my dealer do the Titanium tail light swap for me as part of the make-ready before I accept delivery, just for spite, since I ordered my SE with the 2.0 EcoBoost engine and the dual exhaust, along with the SE appearance package that includes the rear spoiler also. Take that, Ford! Everyone who sees me driving my new SE at night is gonna think that I'm driving a Titanium!

I'm glad I ordered my new Fusion with the 2.0 EcoBoost engine! http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/ford-tells-89-000-escape-fusion-owners-park-230316605.html

I'm glad I ordered my new Fusion with the 2.0 EcoBoost engine! http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/ford-tells-89-000-escape-fusion-owners-park-230316605.html

"Oh, now that it's dark, I see by your tail light pattern that you're driving a Ford Fusion Titanium!" I found this posted on the Blue Oval forums: http://www.blueovalf...se-tail-lights/ Apparently, the Titaniums have a much different tail light pattern than the S & SE models do when the lights are lit up. This really makes no sense at all. Why on earth would Ford advertise that all 2013 Fusions feature LED tail lights, but not mention that the light pattern varies between models? Did they really think it was that necessary to distinguish the Titaniums from the S & SE models at night? Did they really think that it was something potential buyers wouldn't want to know about before they made their purchase decisions? For a car this hyped and anticipated, shouldn't it have been mentioned? Needless to say, this has more than a few people upset, and already planning to make their first mod a tail light swap. However, it would be a very cost prohibitive mod, to the tune of nearly $1000 just to upgrade SE tail lights to Titanium tail lights. This really makes no sense at all either, since LED's really aren't that much more expensive than regular bulbs. More costly yes, but nearly $1000 more, just to get a different tail light pattern installed? I'm sure everyone who bought a Titanium was thinking that it would be a deal breaker if it had no visible improvement over an S or an SE at night... NOT! Personally, I have to agree with those who feel that this unmentioned difference between models is sneaky and deceptive, when so much has been mentioned about all 2013 Fusions featuring LED tail lights. Here in the south, we refer to this type of bait & switch as "chickenshot", although we use a less polite spelling. If it weren't for the fact that I didn't want push button start or MyFord Touch on my new Fusion, I'd feel cheated that I wasn't told about this very noticeable (at night) difference between models before I made my decsion to get an SE instead of a Titanium too. What do you think of it?

Placed my order nearly 6 weeks ago now. Still waiting for a VIN# 2013 Ford Fusion SE 2.0 EcoBoost w/paddle shifters SE appearance package moon roof Deep Impact Blue

See here: http://fordfusionhybridforum.com/index.php?/topic/5599-2013-fusion-delays/