10 Biggest News Stories of the Week: Ford Maverick Hits the Gas, Dodge Charger Super Bee Has Buzz

10 Biggest News Stories of the Week: Ford Maverick Hits the Gas, Dodge Charger Super Bee Has Buzz

On a 200-mile circuit in southeastern Michigan that included about a quarter of city driving and three quarters of highway miles driven under normal conditions, the Cars.com fleet of long-term test vehicles returned to 40.9 mpg on the trip computer and 41.5 mpg manually calculated. Both numbers beat published Maverick estimates for highway driving (33 mpg). And the For combined city and highway driving (37 mpg) – while approaching the city’s 42 mpg mileage figure. Not to mention the fact that in the first 45 miles or so of the trip, about 65% of it was spent in all-electric mode, we only noticed a shadow 53 mpg.

For the full details on the real-world fuel economy assessment for the 2022 Ford Maverick, follow the link below for this week’s #2 news story.

Crossing the finish line just behind the Maverick is the Dodge Charger Super B 2023, a vintage, race-inspired version of the iconic Detroit muscle car. The Super Bee is the second of seven so-called Last Call (after) models to be revealed one by one at weekly intervals until the end of the big model change; The big shift is the implosion of internal combustion as a fuel source for the Dodges lineup in favor of all-electric propulsion. The limited-running 1,000-unit Super Bee based Charger Scat Pack will be a standard half-body and half-body in the Plum Crazy and B5 Blue, respectively, and will come packed with visual cues and uncommon drag strip improvements to make sure everyone understands that this call The latter comes as if it were playing in a college bar.

For everything we know about the 2023 Dodge Charger Super B, follow the link below for news story #3 in this week’s countdown.

On top of that, we’ve got headlines about the Dodge Hornet, and much more – so don’t stop reading until the numbers have doubled.