[gastang07]

I am thinking about getting a 2006 or 2007 Mustang Pony Edition with an automatic transmission to replace my 02 F150. What are some realistic MPG from anyone that might have one that I can expect? Currently drive close to a 100 miles a day so need someting more economical but still fun to drive. Thanks.

[chopperman]

I average about 24mpg in mine. 4.0 5 speed

[psychobenz]

to give u an idea, I have a stock v6 (non-pony package) and I get about 250 miles per tank (on 87 octane,all city driving) and thats if I light foot it.

[jacutis1]

I have a 2007 V6 5 speed. I drive about 50 miles/day mostly hwy. I get about 300 - 320 per 14 gal tank. Average 23 - 24 MPG. That is driving normal, I get less on days that my right foot develops weight problems.

[Black05Pony]

I drive 80 miles a day or more during the week and average 25-26 MPG in my 5 speed v6. I can get about 340-350 miles on a tank of gas and i've got a moderately heavy foot. There's also a fair amount of traffic along my way.

The v6 mustang gets pretty surprising gas mileage. I drove to Anaheim in mine last weekend alongside my brothers friend in his Scion tC (2.4L inline 4 cyl, I believe) and he used nearly half a tank (5-6 gal) while I barely used a quarter of a tank (4-5 gal).

[06 Slvr Bullitt]

I know this may be more than what you asked for but below is my gas log dating back to March of last year. The car isn't a daily driver, so when I take it out, I'm not worried about fuel economy. When it was a daily driver and I took it to work (60 miles round trip, 70% highway) I always maintained mid to high 20s. Now she stays in the low to mid 20s range which is fine for a weekend cruiser because like I said, when I do take her out, I am aggressive with it. I arrived at the Gallons of Gas Used figures by taking the Average Miles Per Gallon and dividing by Miles Driven. Of course I used the trip computer to help in the calculations.

Date Miles Driven Gallons of Gas Used Average Miles Per Gallon
03/17/2007 427.9 Miles 16.457 Gallons 26.0 Miles Per Gallon
03/25/2007 392.8 Miles 16.504 Gallons 23.8 Miles Per Gallon
04/04/2007 360.1 Miles 16.294 Gallons 22.1 Miles Per Gallon
04/10/2007 367.5 Miles 17.093 Gallons 21.5 Miles Per Gallon
04/16/2007 397.0 Miles 16.541 Gallons 24.0 Miles Per Gallon
04/23/2007 381.2 Miles 16.360 Gallons 23.3 Miles Per Gallon
04/30/2007 422.8 Miles 16.515 Gallons 25.6 Miles Per Gallon
05/10/2007 416.8 Miles 16.409 Gallons 25.4 Miles Per Gallon
05/26/2007 380.4 Miles 16.611 Gallons 22.9 Miles Per Gallon
06/10/2007 368.5 Miles 16.524 Gallons 22.3 Miles Per Gallon
06/23/2007 375.2 Miles 16.601 Gallons 22.6 Miles Per Gallon
07/04/2007 367.0 Miles 16.606 Gallons 22.1 Miles Per Gallon
07/12/2007 396.4 Miles 16.655 Gallons 23.8 Miles Per Gallon
07/27/2007 408.0 Miles 16.929 Gallons 24.1 Miles Per Gallon
08/17/2007 394.2 Miles 16.703 Gallons 23.6 Miles Per Gallon
09/07/2007 371.4 Miles 16.654 Gallons 22.3 Miles Per Gallon
09/30/2007 406.3 Miles 17.000 Gallons 23.9 Miles Per Gallon
11/02/2007 398.3 Miles 16.458 Gallons 24.2 Miles Per Gallon
11/19/2007 388.1 Miles 16.444 Gallons 23.6 Miles Per Gallon
12/16/2007 401.0 Miles 16.778 Gallons 23.9 Miles Per Gallon

[xchris]

with a CAI i once got 29.4 mpg on a trip that was almost all highway but i was by no means being light on the pedal

[Ponyone]

I know I'm missing something here but gas mileage has NOTHING to do with how many miles you drive per tank. It's miles per gallon. Our tanks are 16 Gallons which doesn't factor into the calculation either.

Simply start with a full tank. Drive your car X amount of miles. Fill it up . Record the actual miles driven and the amount of gallons to fill up. That's the formula! Example:

Miles driven / Gallons to fill = Miles per Gallon

300 / 12.4 = 24.2

[chopperman]

LOL, I ALMOST posted the same thing until I re-read it about 10 times! I thought he had one of those new fangled gas tanks you could fill as much as you wanted to! He used his trip computer to do the calc's. Fillups have no bearing on it. The trip computer tells you how far you've gone and how much fuel you have used since the trip computer was last reset. It is the exact same thing as doing it per tank with the exception of you reset it whenever you want, not just at fills.

[ONEZ ST]

I average 24 mpg combined city/hwy and yesterday I had to make a round trip that was 380 miles strictly Hwy and got 32 mpg with the cruise set at 70.

[06 Slvr Bullitt]

I knew I would get someone (or someones as it were) on here who would try to be smarky and say that I didn't know what I was doing. I guess I should clarify my driving/refilling habits so those who doubt me or better yet don't believe me are in the know.

Actually while the tanks are rated at 16 gallons, they are slightly larger than that. As a matter of fact, this is something that many people have agreed with in the past on many threads relating to miles per gallon on this forum. Most tanks are actually larger than what most manufacturers list them as being. It's like that in just about every car to tell you the truth, well all the cars I've owned in any case. When I had my Cavalier it was rated at 14.1 gallons (12.6 with a 1.5 reserve tank) but easily held between 15.5 - 16 gallons (topping off no more than twice), others on a particular Cavalier forum I visit verified this as well. Also my Sonata, which is rated with a 18.0 gas tank, I managed to put 19.2XX gallons of gas in the car on my first tank immediately after I purchased it from the dealer and left the lot...driving 2 miles to the nearest station. If you don't know, the current gen NF Sonatas are virtually impossible to top off, even once. I've actually put as much as 17.5 gallons of gas in my '06 Mustang. No I don't excessively top off the tank either, I only top off at the most twice (but typically once) at the pump and at that the gas is no where near coming close to being visible in the filler neck when I'm done which means no spillage or overflowing. I never stick the nozzle of the pump fully into the tank and where applicable, I pump the gas at half speed, rather than relying on setting the lever on the trigger for the gas to pump fast automatically on its own. Also, I never refuel when the Trip Computer says my car should be empty or 0 miles to E (because it's not). When I refuel, it's always within .3 - .5 (sometimes I'm a litter higher or lower on that range) of the amount I put into the tank. So for example, if a fill-up takes putting in 16.6XX gallons in the tank, then I won't refill my car until the Fuel Used indicator reaches the 16.3 gallon mark. As I've said in the past in a different thread (search my friend, as there are threads out there on average Miles Per Gallon), the computer inside the Mustang is only designed to utilize up to the first 16.0 gallons (for which it's rated) when calculating miles to empty and fuel used. Don't believe me, check your gauges next time. When you're at 16.0 gallons used, the X miles to E indicator will be at 0. This is why some have been able to go 10, 20, 30, even 40 miles beyond when the computer displays the 0 Miles to E message as the computer errs on the side of caution, only computing readings for the first 16.0 gallons no matter if you actually pumped more than that into the tank. I've been using this method pretty much ever since I had the car and figured out how the computer gauges fuel comsumption and what not. Not once have I ever ran out of gas or came close to running out of gas (car bucking and such, that I experience with a friend who actually did run out of gas in their S197 Mustang...once but we don't bring that up, lol) using this method. Also I should clarify, I only use the Trip computer to calculate the fuel usage to the nearest one-thousandth of a gallon as that is for my own records only since all pumps (well the ones I encountered) list amount of fuel purchased to the nearest one-thousandth of a gallon.

Also even if I do use Ponyone's formula, the difference between the MPGs I'm getting using my formula and the MPGs I get using his formula is only .3 of a MPG (at the max, at best). It was tedious, but I recalculated all my numbers using his formula. For example, on 12/16/07 (when I last refueled the Mustang), I got a max fuel range of approximately 401.0 miles on the previous tank of gas. When I refueled, I filled the tank to 16.624 gallons (I know this because I always pay for my gas via debit card and mark the amount of gas it takes to fill my car in my checkbook). So if I'm following him right and using his formula...

I started with a full tank of gas on 11/19/07. Between 11/19/07 and 12/16/07 I drove a total of 401.0 miles. When I refilled on 12/16/2007, I put approximately 16.624 gallons of gas in my car so...

401 / 16.624 = 24.1 miles per gallon (rounded to the nearest one-tenth, 24.121751 if you want a specific number) using your method.

as opposed to

401 (miles driven) / 23.9 (computer listed miles per gallon) = 16.778 gallons of gas used or 16.7 gallons of gas used as listed on my Mustang's trip computer, which would be the same as 401 / 16.778 = 23.9 miles per gallon (rounded to the nearest one-tenth, 23.900345 if you want a specific number), again using my method.

The difference between the two numbers is only 0.221406. Not enough for you, in my opinion, to blast me for being wrong or doing this incorrectly as you've stated. Not too mention there are times when redoing calculations that both numbers (using your formula and my method) have been spot on with the exception of there being a difference like 0.000XXX (23.568458 mpg vs. 23.568789 mpg to throw out some numbers for examples). So if the averages are nearly identical, how can my method be wrong if both are very similar?

[ONEZ ST]

Sounds more like an obsessive science project than a simple fill up.

[06 Slvr Bullitt]

Originally Posted by ONEZ ST

Sounds more like an obsessive science project than a simple fill up.

Lol, yeah I guess. I was up late last night, couldn't sleep...so I had plenty of time to calculate this stuff. Between that and doing the resume and letter for the job I'm applying for, it killed some time before I went to bed early this morning.

Oh, science wasn't my greatest subject, lol. I'm just one of those guys (okay probably the only one) who likes to get the maximum amount of mileage out of a tank of gas I can before I need to refuel.

[Bullet]

Average 24-25 on short runs, BUT, on the highway, we have gotten 30.2 once, and 31.8 once.

The high ones were highway miles.

P.S. That is a 4.0 automatic.

[deoraii]

I have a 2007 Mustang Pony Package and it gets about 20 MPG, but I do more city driving, start stop, than highway. Overall, it is a great car.