Ford's fuel economy over 100 years of production

By Rachel on June 4, 2003 2:05 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

CHICAGO, June 3 (Reuters) - U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club said on Tuesday it plans to run advertisements criticizing Ford Motor Co. F.N for making vehicles that are less fuel-efficient now -- on its 100th birthday -- than when it began.

The ads, scheduled to run in The New York Times and BusinessWeek magazine, note that the Model T got 25 miles to the gallon nearly a century ago. The group sent copies of the ads to journalists.

The average vehicle now made by Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford gets 22.6 miles per gallon, the ads said, with its popular Explorer sport utility vehicle getting 16 miles per gallon.

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