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Who needs a Prius? In a contempo analysis by Ford, a banal 2011 Mustang V6 collection 776.6 afar on a individual catchbasin of gas — applique an boilerplate of 48.5 mpg.

Go ahead. Pick your jaw up off the floor. We’ll wait…

“On Tuesday, June 23, a accumulation of Ford engineers hit the clue at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee in a absolutely banal 2011 Mustang V6,” explains Autoblog. “When Mustangs are on a track, usually the drivers are in seek of absolute speed, but that wasn’t the case this time around. Instead the aggregation of 5 drivers alternated every hour to see how far they could accomplish the Mustang go on just one catchbasin of gas.”

Ford’s ambition was to complete 1,000 laps (533 miles) in its all-new 305-horsepower V6 Mustang. It blew that mark away. “When the dust settled, the Mustang not alone completed the challenge, but had in fact gone on to complete 1,457 laps (776.5 miles) afore the catchbasin ran dry, averaging an absorbing 48.5 mpg,” letters CNET.

Of course, the Mustang wasn’t active in real-world conditions. Not alone was it on a clue and getting analysis apprenticed by professionals, but its boilerplate acceleration was clocked at alone 43.9 mph. The Boston Globe explains, “The accumulation active ammunition able techniques like aspersing air conditioning, befitting a abiding pace, alienated abrupt stops and starts (they chock-full to about-face drivers but not to add ammunition to the 16-gallon tank) and befitting the rpms low.”

Nevertheless, the after-effects are absorbing — abnormally for a beef car. Then again, the 2011 Ford Mustang V6 is the aboriginal car able with added than 300 application to net an EPA-estimated ammunition abridgement of 31 mpg (highway).

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