What are these trucks actually getting for mpg?

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Big Ratt

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80% HW/20% city. 70-75mph current tank I went through. 552 mile @ 18.4mpg. Stock truck.
 

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Mine is getting 15.5 in city driving and with me getting into it because it is so much fun. I'm thinking on a long highway trip with the cruise on doing 80 I should be right around 20.

funniest thing I've read all week:ROFLJest:
 

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I'm 90 percent freeway/highway and 10 percent city. I'm getting 15.5 when doing 85mph on the freeway and 18.5 when doing 65mph on the highway. It does seem though, the little bit I'm in the city, I'm getting just over 15MPG accelerating at 3,000-3,500 RPMs from stoplights...
 
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For comparison:

On summer gas (winter gas has less energy) I get between 15.5 and 16.5 mpg with my 2011 6.2L SCAB in 2WD. This is absolutely unfailing. It doesn't matter whether the driving is predominantly city or highway. Surprisingly, speed doesn't matter either. What does matter is my right foot. Drive sanely and the big V8 will produce surprisingly good gas mileage.

You guys who waited for a GEN2 because you thought that a V6 with twin blowers would produce markedly better fuel economy forgot something important:
Physics. It takes a certain amount of energy to move a heavy, big body, high profile vehicle down the road. To do the same work requires the expenditure of the same amount of energy. That energy will come from the fuel consumed and from nowhere else. Miracles do not happen between fill-ups. Physics happens.

No way in hell your getting 15-16mpg, the 6.2 in all Ford trucks average 12-13mpg if you baby them, if you get on it my 14' drops into the 11mpg range. Had a ford work van with 6.2 same thing 12mpg all day, head wind, tail wind it didnt matter.

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50/50 City/Hwy, 1600 miles on the truck. 13.2 MPG is what I'm getting on 17 SCREW Stock

Man that MPG sucks, my 17' is on its way and I typically get around 12.5mpg in my 14'
 

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80% HW/20% city. 70-75mph current tank I went through. 552 mile @ 18.4mpg. Stock truck.

Does you trip2 show all 4700 miles? Curious what real world avg #s we are all seeing day to day. Great to see some good mileage can be had on a roadtrip though.
 

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I'm getting 14.9 with 80 percent city driving. I'm not getting into it much. Not really touching sport mode. I have a muscle car for burning rubber.
 

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14.8 mpg mix of city and highway. Computer shows 16mpg, but calculated based on fill up receipts shows a little lower.
 

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I had to drive into far south Austin for something the other day and on the last part of the way back I recorded this video of the MPG gauge with the truck on autopilot.

On a long enough trip it settles down to around 17.5 mpg. I think if you drove it gentle enough you might could just touch 20 mpg at 60 mph. If there's no headwind. Maybe. According to the display anyway.

But, it's Raptor and you shouldn't do that. As soon as I got off the highway I put it back into sport mode and dropped the mpg down to 15. :)

 

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With 2800 miles on her, I am averaging 14.8.

With a single tank babying it to work (30%highway/70%City), I was able to muster 15.5.

With it in Sportmode for a whole week and driving somewhat spirited, it averages 13.5.

It really comes down to how you drive it...if you drive a flat freeway and stay off it, it's feasible you can get 17/18...but any sort of city driving in sport mode will drop it real quick.
 
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