{"id":74914,"date":"2024-07-28T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T04:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74914"},"modified":"2024-07-28T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T04:03:18","slug":"junkyard-gem-2013-ford-c-max-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74914","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid SE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford began selling the Escape Hybrid<\/a> in the United States four years after the introduction of the Toyota Prius<\/a> here, with production continuing through 2012. To replace it, a Focus-derived MPV that had proven itself in Europe<\/a> was given a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain and introduced as a 2013 model for North America<\/a>. This was the C-Max Hybrid, and I’ve found one of those first-year cars in a Wyoming self-service car graveyard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The C-Max was the first American-market Ford model that was available only as a hybrid, and sales continued through 2018 (after which it was canceled due to being insufficiently truck-like<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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The idea was that it would compete for sales against the Toyota Prius<\/a>, with its similar price tag and fuel economy specs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Like the Prius, the C-Max had an Atkinson-cycle<\/a> four-cylinder gasoline engine providing the internal-combustion power. Total output with the 88kW electric motor was 188 horsepower, which beat the Prius and its 134 total horses. There was a plug-in hybrid version called the C-Max Energi<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

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And the 2013 C-Max’s official EPA fuel economy rating, while not quite reaching Prius levels, was excellent: 47 mpg city, 47 mpg highway, 47 mpg combined.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for Ford, American C-Max reviewers and buyers quickly found that their real-world fuel economy was lower than those numbers. Much lower.\u00a0Litigiously<\/em> lower<\/a>, in fact.<\/p>\n

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By the summer of 2013, the EPA had backpedaled on its C-Max mileage ratings<\/a>, dropping them to 45 city\/40 highway\/43 combined. Ford sent rebate checks to all 32,000 buyers and lessees of 2013 C-Maxes in the United States<\/a>. None of this seemed to hurt C-Max sales<\/a> too much at the time\u2026 at first; sales of the 2014 C-Max plummeted a bit later<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The “tall hatchback” MPV body style proved extremely popular with European car shoppers during the 2000s and deep into the 2010s, and I documented quite a few<\/a> of those<\/a> cars during<\/a> my whirlwind<\/a> tour of<\/a> English scrapyards<\/a> last winter<\/a>. American car shoppers weren’t quite as enthusiastic about this type of vehicle, as can be seen by the chilly reception for the C-Max’s platform cousin, the Mazda5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At least the C-Max Hybrid sold better than the Altima Hybrid<\/a> and Jetta Hybrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Get ready for the Hybrid Games!<\/p>\n\n

All those Prius V-beating fuel economy claims went out the window soon enough.<\/p>\n\n

C-Max says, “Ha!” C-Max says, “Wheee!” Which is what you get, don’t you see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ford began selling the Escape Hybrid in the United States four years after the introduction of the Toyota Prius here, with production continuing through 2012. To replace it, a Focus-derived MPV that had proven itself in Europe was given a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain and introduced as a 2013 model for North America. This was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}