What am I missing? Mine had 46k miles when I bought it and with 100% city stoplight to stoplight I can get 17mpg across a tank driving smart. I drove from Phoenix to Flagstaff and back and then city driving for the rest of the tank and I got 19mpg across that tank. What gives???

3.55 gears, 4x4.

 

I'm averaging 19.3-19.5 70/30 hwy/city driving, that's with 20's, and all mods in sig with 5 star 93 performance tune...but I do have reg cab/6.5 bed

 

Not exacrtly....Small lift and 33x12.5r20s........


And a Roush SC lol. The Roush canned tune is awful and I suspect the culprit behind the crap mpg. It's all in the works of getting retuned and more boost and power thrown at it.

 

Ah...

 

I'm not in AZ. I'm in Michigan, where it's cold as hell, it snows, and where I run winter-blend fuel right now. I've had the truck about 2 months.

 

I am with you! We traded my wife's SUV last summer for a tiny Honda Fit that gets about 40 MPG. The plan was for me to drive that Monday-Friday on my 35 miles commutes, and for my wife to take my truck on her 4 mile commute. However I find any excuse I can think of to take the truck over the car, even knowing that I literally save $8 in gas every time I take her car to work. Don't get me wrong I love that little Honda, but the truck is just so much more fun and comfortable.

 

Lol, same here. My wife is a school teacher and off all summer. The plan was for me to take her Prius to work while she was off 45 miles each way. But I love driving the truck so much that I couldn't justify it even with the savings.

 

I would save around $15-$20 a week taking our AWD Edge (only averages around 22-23 mpg).. I'm with a lot of other people here, I'll pay the $20 extra and love every minute of it. With that is the reassurance that my wife won't get the pickup dented up in parking ramps haha

 

I have the same truck, my experience is almost identical.

 

Bought my 2011 5.0 FX4 just under a month ago and even in Toronto traffic hell, I can't stop making excuses to drive the thing. Feels like when I was 16 all over again.
Speaking of city driving, there's city driving and then there is stupid city driving. LA, Atlanta, New York, Chicago and Toronto are miserable for MPG driving a truck. I get 11mpg in city and 21 mpg on the hwy. Yucky city driving!