EggsOverBacon

Good news! The Escape's mileage seems to improve after the first few thousand miles? I was just reading the old Escape MPG poll posted here for 2003 Escape owners and was wondering if anyone else had experienced improved mileage after owning your Escape for awhile? I found a couple of owner gas mileage reports on the net. This one looks like the best:

Check out this Escape MPG owners poll (there are over 400 votes!!)

• Link: GAS & GO -- What's your V-6 MPG

360ci

Nice poll. To check average numbers for almost any vehicle and year you can go to Fuel Economy

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'00 Durango R/T 360ci 290hp (modded); 138,500m
'06 Pontiac G6 GT 3.5L 220hp; 44,000m
'12 Chrysler 200 Limited 3.6L 283hp; 13,000m
'99 Taurus 3.0L 2V Vulcan 145hp; 154,300m - Traded
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jbartlett79

This happens with every vehicle - after the first oil change, you should see a slight increase. They say there is no "break in period" with a new car, but they only mean that to imply that there are no RPM or speed restrictions with the new engine; once the engine components settle in a bit you'll see an improvement.

I'll be switching to full synthetic as soon as my '09 4-cylinder gets to 5k, but it probably won't help since the viscosity is already 5w20.

Jeff

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