This is what I was saying about the other side of this matter. Guy's who say there getting very poor mpg. I have seen guy's "brag" about their trucks getting very poor milage like it's a macho thing to have a big truck that sucks gas.
I notice this more on a Dodge site. I also have a 04 Ram 1500 std. cab 2wd with the 4.7 auto that my son drives. When I was driving it, the milage around town and to work was allways 14 to 14.5 mpg, sometimes a little better. On one drive up into Oklahoma I got 20.1 @ about 65 mph in mild fall weather without the air on.
But there are guys constantly saying they only get 11-12 mpg out of the same truck. No matter how hard I drove that Dodge I never saw worse than 13.5 mpg. Thay're either beating the sh_t out of their trucks, figuring the milage wrong, or flat out lying.

 

Window decals and bumper stickers will definitely add 2- 3 mpg. Why, a K&N decal ALONE is worth that much improvement!

Seriously though...come on. MPG threads are like "what oil should I use?" threads. Lots of opinions....lots of 'experts'. Very little empirical data.
And MPG threads in truck forums is sort of insane anyway. If anyone ever really, all bullsh*t aside, got anywhere close to 20 mpg....well, my first inclination is to call b.s., by second is to offer congratulations. Now here is your cookie and your gold star.

 

So if a truck gets anywhere near 20mpg you call bs? City or Hwy? cause you can easily get 20+ Hwy!

 

True..........I have the sane drivetrain as Rok and I get 20 pretty easily if I keep her rolling and lay off the right pedal. Am I lying? Nah.

 

My city mpg isnt good. 12-13mpg but thats alot of stop and go and turning the vehicle on and off with such short trips down here. And i also have the A/C on almost year round down here too.

 

I understand the fact that Wiki is a site created by multiple posters who can post undocumented data as easily as the truth. However, I believe that if you look at the numbers in my post, you will find that they are, in fact, accurate numbers available in any "real" scientific journal. Wiki aside, all I was doing was pointing out the futility of argueing about individual MPG figures. Prolly almost as useless as argueing about using Wiki as a valid source.

AND FOR THE HATERS OUT THERE, I WANT TO STATE THAT I'M GETTING 17.5 MPG AVERAGE IN MY '09 XLT SCAB 4x2 WITH THE 4.6/3.55 OVER NEARLY 18,000 MILES. OF COURSE, YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY....AND YEAH, MY CPU CALCS ARE HIGH BY APPROX 0.5-1.0 MPG. CAN YA HEAR ME NOW?

 

What?

 

my 2010 scab w 4.6 3v /3.55LS gets roughly 16.5 to 17.5 (hand calculated).
Only have 3600 miles on it mixed highway /city. so I would say 17mpg.
Out of all my trucks i've owned the best would be around 22-23mpg on a straight hwy drive on vacation. Other than that I have never known personally anyone to get the mid to upper 20's.

My wifes Escape w/v6 only averages 21mpg.

 

This sounds about right and seems very honest. I like this post.

Got about 3000 miles of mixed but mostly city driving in my 5.4 4x4 V8 Screw w/3.55LS and I'm getting about 15mpg so far. I'm hoping it increases some as I do a little more highway driving in the future, but I am in the Ford EPA mpg bracket so I really cant complain.

 

You forgot to tell everyone that you were driving a Honda