What happened to ecoboost?

[PiKe]

...as it doesn't seem very economical anymore.

Mother in law got a Ford Kuga Zetec 1.5 petrol and on reading the brochure, it's really poor. Aside from the 1.5 petrol being the dirtiest of the range (173 g/km), even Ford acknowledge the the mpg is a load of rubbish.

I don't understand the point of the Kuga, it just seems a big heavy car with a woefully poor engine.

Did ford just rip up the memo about efficiency?

 

[PiKe]

It amused me how Ford chose to word 'just 37.7mpg', surely that would have been worded better if it was talking about CO² and it was a low figure?

 

[PiKe]

Why do people see 50+ mpg as decent? 20 year old diesels can manage that, we should be approaching 100mpg by now.

Even hybrid cars are let down by rubbish petrol engines that only return 36mpg.