The FE depends a lot on how you drive and where you drive. The term city now a days is a very wrong way of measuring the FE. If I drive my SUV in Mysore(A City), I would get 12. If I am driving in Bangalore near Koramangala/BTM ring road area during peak hours, I would hardly get 8-9. It all depends on how many signals, the wait time in each signal, the movement b/w signals. Sometimes, a snail goes faster then the Scorpio :-)
On Highways, when my driver drives, he usually keeps a constant speed of 80-110.
When I drive, the speed ranges from 50-150. So again, depends on how you rev your vehicle. In my hands, I get about 12 and my driver ensures it touches 13. (Lucky to have a good driver)
Regarding the engine noise, I don't think, there is any huge difference b/w 2.6 and 2.2 mHawk. but when AC is on, the engine noise is ineed very less.
The best of mHawk, is the ride quality. It is far far superior then 2.6 CRDE. I did a test drive of Scorpio's for almost 12-15 times before I finally decided on mHawk. mHawk is not value for money. All the gizmos they claim are not worth it. The music system justs sucks.
Buy mHawk only for the engine and nothing else. I am not sure what all they modified really to ensure that we have a good ride quality. But ride quality is good. I touched 150 once and it still had enough power to pull more. But more importantly I was in absolutly full control and no vibration of the vehicle as such even at 150.
Cheers!!!
Prakash
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