No, I'm sure they are talking highway.

I'm thinking that the FEH are going to have high resale values after 2012.

 

I have been reading and looking at the press release of the 2013 "Escape". It is an Escape in name only as the Escape we know is dead. The hybrid we know is dead. The new "Escape" is just another cross-over vehicle like so many others on the market today. It seems Ford has ditched the Escape which was the second most popular model they sold this past year. Of course they kept the name, but that is all as they didn't even bother to keep the Hybrid version. The excuse is eco-tech engines will replace the hybrids. I doubt if the city mileage in an eco-tech is any where near as good as a hybrid. Advertising on TV seems to just focus on highway MPG. Not everyone stays on a highway all day. I wish they had to always tell what the average MPG is in the advertising when they talk MPG.

 

But DFI is a much more substandial improvement in FE if the engine isn't also derated/detuned to accommdate BOOST.

EcoBoost was originally concieved as "TwinForce", a method to attract "boy racers" and those of that mentality to the new pony car...Mustang.

But then gas prices went into orbit.

So Ford proved once again that while you can try, you can NEVER make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

Oh, with the MKZ they is likely just enough more profit margin to afford the Toyota licensing cost.

 

I thought I read somewhere that Mazda was bringing a small diesel to US market, forgot what os where I read it, anyone else confirm?

 

I'm interested in the licensing cost you mentioned. Can you provide any printed information about this? All I can find is mention of a cross-licensing agreement between Ford and Toyota where they shared technology in return for agreeing not to sue each other over similar technology that was created in separate development initiatives. No money appears to be involved.

(ref:http://www.green.autoblog.com/2009/0...a-hybrid-syst/)

 

I think that this is a tale perpetuated by people that are ashamed of being an American.

 

No, PROUD to be an American.

Just facts.

 

Which you are unable or unwilling to document.

 

I understood it as Ford traded some diesel technology in exchange for some hybrid technology. But also remember reading that Ford still registered over 125 unique patents in the process.

 

Yes, Ford had its share of patents arising from the overall application of the hybrid synergy drive technique, not the least of which was the lowering of regen capability with OAT as a safety measure.