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Hi C-Max community! I was driving a little 2006 Smart Car for my commute (40 km, 25 miles daily, mix of highway and city) until a short while ago and was quite happy with the performance and the mileage (4.3 l/100km or 55 mpg). We are expecting our first kid end of the year, so the Smart Car had to be replaced with a car with a second row of seats for the baby seat so we have some redundancy to our 'big car'. I initially did a lot of research and was undecided between a used Prius or a Nissan Leaf. We did a test drive with a Leaf and, while it was fun and there would have been plenty charging options at home/work, we did not like the trunk size (we also have a medium sized dog). A used Prius seemed very expensive even with a high km/mile count and we did not really like the interior. To cut a long story short, by chance we saw that our used car dealer hat a 2013 C-Max SEL with around 135k km/83k miles in very good condition. We did some research, did a test drive and bought it! I am driving now for around two weeks and I am also very happy with the mileage. When we bought it the life time summary stated 5.8 l/100km or 40.5 mpg. This was already quite convincing, but after a reset of the summary I am driving now at 5.2 l/100km or 45 mpg. I was reading that in the 2013 models there was a software issue which could impair the mileage negatively. Does Ford still offer to upgrade the software? How do I find out if the car was already upgraded? Can I read out the version somewhere? Or can I assume that with a mileage of 45 mpg the upgrade was done already because I would never get that good with the old software? If its the old software, can I expect a huge change in the mileage? Thanks so much for your help! JP Vancouver

Well, well, end of an era for Mad Max but hope the new one will be even better. Now, since I plan on running The Enterprise quite a while longer, I might out run you on total miles - but I'll never catch you on lifetime MPG!