2011+ 5.0 Mustang MPG

[mustangguy289]

What kind of gas mileage are you getting out of your 2011 or newer 5.0 Mustang? List type of driving, trans, any mods.

I have 3000 miles on mine. Bone stock with standard trans and factory 3.55 gear upgrade. My driving is 60 %highway 40% city for work but with weekend driving probably balances out to 50/50.

Hand calculated since the my first time to fill the car up shows 22.9MPG. ( I didn't start hand calculating until my first fill up since I am not sure how "full" it was from the dealership so there are a few miles on the car not reflected in this).

The car reads 22.7 since I bought it. Trip B (which has not been reset) reads 22.2 since it drove off the assembly line. ( The car had about 35 miles of test driving when I bought it so that is where the difference between those two is.)

My trip A ( reset at every fill up) is reading 24.6 currently for this tank of gas and this is always with in +/_ .2 of what I get hand calculating on my MPG app.

[Rick Modena]

My '12 is an auto, so my results are going to be different. I have 3.17's or something, coming back from San Antonio I got 32mpg's with a 72mph average. A/C on and sometimes 80 and other time 55-60 depending on the area dictated traffic. I never went WOT either, I've been twice and results were the same.
In the city, it depends if im just daily driving but I do alot of highway too, so it averages between 19-22 mpg's and there are some WOT's too, I just can't help it..

[mustangguy289]

I have not had a chance to go on a "long" trip with this car but am very curious what it will get. I notice I can get better MPG by not using CC. Most of my fill up averages include a few 0-100 WOT runs... this current tank has 0. Trying to get it up to 25 mpg for my normal work commute on this tank.

[Rick Modena]

Thats wierd, my car gets better mpg's with the cruise on.

THe other thing is to not reset your mpg gauge after every fill-up, its better to let it roll for several tanks to get a truer mpg average.

[mustangguy289]

Thats wierd, my car gets better mpg's with the cruise on.

THe other thing is to not reset your mpg gauge after every fill-up, its better to let it roll for several tanks to get a truer mpg average.

The cruise control wants to accelerate on every hill were my foot can just let the momentum carry the car over the hill.

I have not reset the MPG guage (reading 22.7) since I left the lot. I reset trip A (reading 24.6) every fill up. I will reset trip B (reading 22.2) at every oil change.

Not sure which year you have but the 2013's let you view 3 different MPG readings.

[Rick Modena]

I have a 2014...

[mustangguy289]

I have a 2014...

Ahh f*ck... you said '12 in your post. My bad.... do the 2012's have the two trip guage options in the center of the gauges?

[kanetrain]

I have a Lund tune with a manual trans. and 3.73 gears, I get around 16 mpg on average. I get about 26 when I drive on the highway. 13 when I romp on it around town.

[Rick Modena]

I did say '12, but I figured you skipped over my post, so then it was time to fuck wit ya...

[RabidJackal]

Most of my driving is in-town with traffic. I usually see about 15 mpg.

[talisman]

I'm at 14.6 with 1600 miles on my '13. 95% in town, though I'm frequently at highway speeds..

[silverhatch]

I get about 19.5 mixed if I am good. Normally I am more like 18. I have had one long trip and doing between 80-90 the whole time I got 25.9 mpg in my 13. My only mods are mufflers and an mgw shifter.

[silverhatch]

Off subject but I put in some l.e.d. in my dome light yesterday if you have not done this you should it is cheap and a huge improvement over the yellow dim factory lights.

[mustangguy289]

Off subject but I put in some l.e.d. in my dome light yesterday if you have not done this you should it is cheap and a huge improvement over the yellow dim factory lights.

Is this as simple as just changing out bulbs?

[SonicblueGT03]

Since the blower installation, my mileage (At least the dash readout) has been a little high. It currently shows that I'm getting 24.6 and after filling up this morning, it shows a 405 mile range to empty. I got 325 miles from the previous tank. I'm guessing 350-375 miles on a straight highway trip shouldn't be too hard to attain.