{"id":525,"date":"2008-12-20T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T10:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2008-12-18T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T11:19:47","slug":"gear-changing-advice-coming-soon-to-a-ford-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/525","title":{"rendered":"Gear-Changing Advice &#8211; Coming soon to a Ford near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110 alignright\" title=\"Ford Transit Connect SportVan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ford-transit-connect-sportvan.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit Connect SportVan\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/>One of the easiest ways to improve fuel consumption and reduce wear and tear on your vehicle&#8217;s drivetrain is by timing gear changes correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Ford are obviously aware of this and are now taking active steps to help drivers change gear better.<\/p>\n<p>From 2009, all Ford Econetic model cars (Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo) will have a gear change indicator on their instrument consoles. The same indicator will also be fitted to Transit and Transit Connect vans.<\/p>\n<p>The indicator consists of a light that illuminates when it&#8217;s time to change up to the next gear. The idea is that many drivers over-rev needlessly and without realising it, causing wear and wasting lots of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>By timing up-changes correctly, significant cost savings can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ford, the system &#8220;continuously monitors data from the vehicle including engine speed, road speed, gear selected and throttle position to calculate optimum gear changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it&#8217;s not just some dumb light that flashes automatically when engine revs reach a certain level. Sounds good to me &#8211; I will certainly look forward to trying one in practice and seeing how well it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is introducing a gear shift indicator system on Econetic and van models from 2009. By following it, drivers should be able to save fuel and reduce wear and tear to their vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[550,551,553,123,554,552,548,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}