MPG-o-Matic Ford Escape Hybrid Review Summary: The Ford Escape Hybrid is a five seat sport utility that competes with the Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, Toyota Highlander, and Jeep Patriot, among others. In a crowded field, the Escape Hybrid’s excellent gas mileage set Ford’s innovative SUV apart from the competition.
Make no mistake about it … the Ford Escape Hybrid is the most fuel efficient SUV available here in the States.
After spending a week and more than five hundred miles with a 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid, we walked away thoroughly impressed. Although rated at 40 city / 45 highway miles per gallon (MPG), we were able to easily exceed those numbers, landing 46.2 MPG combined.
Vanquish the thoughts of the tiny lightweight high-MPG Civics of yore (youth) … The roomy 2008 Civic has grown into adulthood and the Hybrid sits proudly at the top of the range.
At MPGomatic, we take a different tack when it comes to covering industry events like the big trade shows. At the huge venues the press are often herded around like a flock of hungry … well … reporters. (If there’s a conference around lunchtime, you’ll find the herd at the feed trough.) Rather than succumb … Read more
MPG-o-Matic Nissan Altima Hybrid Review Summary: The Altima Hybrid is a mid-sized front-wheel-drive sedan that competes with the Honda Civic Hybrid and Toyota Camry Hybrid in the “hybrid that doesn’t look like a hybrid” market.
Hybrid vehicles typically get better gas mileage in the city than on the highway. The Altima is a case in point. The EPA gas mileage estimates for the 2008 Altima Hybrid come in at 35 city / 33 highway. In a week of driving in mid-thirty to fifty degree weather, our gas mileage met those numbers.
I was stopped at a red light this week, behind the wheel of a kiwi green 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid … the most fuel-efficient SUV currently for sale in the United States. The Saab 9-5 idling at the light in front of me was sporting a holier-then-thou anti-SUV bumper sticker. I can’t recall the exact … Read more