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Consumer Reports Finds Ford Hybrids Exagerated 47 MPG Claims

2012 looked like the year of the hybrid, as Ford, Toyota and Honda all combined brand new four-cylinder engines with electric motors and claimed big figures in terms of economy.
In this kind of market, whoever has the best claimed mpg gets a huge edge in the marketing wars, and Ford promised the best, as its 2013 Fusion Hybrid is supposed to do 47 mpg highway, city and combined. If that strikes you as weird, how about the fact that the C-Max Hybrid promises the exact same figures?

But buyers and journalists found these claims could be exaggerated. Consumer Reports decided the best thing to do would be to actually buy the two cars and test them in a realistic environment, and guess what they found? The biggest discrepancy between claimed and real figures ever!
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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