This consumes the Ford EcoSport 1.0 EcoBoost
The Ford EcoSport was a bit of an odd duck in the compact SUV segment. The car originated in Brazil and even had a spare wheel on the tailgate in the first years after its introduction. Its name was also remarkable, a combination of two terms that you would not necessarily expect on an all-terrain vehicle. We already knew that the ‘Sport’ in EcoSport does not refer to the driving characteristics, but what about ‘Eco’? The AutoWeek Consumption Monitor provides an answer.
The Ford EcoSport was available since 2015 and quietly disappeared from the scene at the end of 2022. A number of facelifts were intended to make the model better suited to European tastes, but in the Netherlands the success remained limited with just over 9,000 sales. As for engines, you could choose a three-cylinder 1.0 EcoBoost with 100 or 125 hp, a 1.5 TI-VCT four-cylinder or the 1.5 TDCi diesel.
Consumption Ford EcoSport 1.0 EcoBoost 125hp
In the AutoWeek Consumption Monitor we only find consumption values ​​for the 1.0 EcoBoost with 125 hp. The nine values ​​do not provide an extremely representative result, but they do provide a nice indication. It also makes a difference that most drivers have kept track of their consumption over a longer period, as we like to see.
The average consumption that EcoSport EcoBoost drivers achieve is 1 in 14.7 (6.8 l/100 km). The best value is 1 in 16.8 (5.9 l/100 km) over a distance of 10,851 kilometers and half a year, where the driver indicates that he consciously drives economically. The worst average is 1 in 13.2 (7.6 l/100 km) over more than 37,000 kilometers, which the driver collected in about three years.
The conclusion? Such a Ford EcoSport is not very ‘sport’ and neither is it explicitly ‘eco’. For example, the Opel Crossland and Peugeot 2008 squeeze more kilometers out of a liter of petrol. However, the EcoSport is considerably more economical than the Renault Captur with 120 hp four-cylinder.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl