310hp, 555lb-ft. And a factory gooseneck hitch!
310hp, 555lb-ft. And a factory gooseneck hitch!
No place delivers to my house, but I order take-out from Waffle House and a Chinese place every once and a while. Waffle House adds a take-out charge, I don't tip on top of that, Chinese place doesn't have an extra charge but they have a tip line on the receipt that I ignore. I don't tip McDonald's cashiers, I won't…
The first time I ate at Moe's, I was asked by the teenage burrito wrapper if I would like "cheese" or "queso" on my burrito. I kinda snickered, because I thought he was joking, he just stared at me like I had a penis growing out of my forehead.
My truck is rated at 16/22... I average between 18-20... over 11,587 miles. And I always hand-calculate with Fuelly, even if I'm filling up from half a tank with all city driving. The only time I averaged close to my city rating was when I was towing a Uhaul.
"The amount of gas you can fit into an empty tank before the pump shuts off is highly variable."
They're simple to remove, 5 minutes at most.
"many people I know with 4WD trucks only put them in 4WD once or twice a year to drive down a dirt road they probably didn't need it for."
Did you read the article about Ward testing an EcoBoost F150? They averaged 15.6MPG, and they were just driving around, not racing.
My short-bed Frontier can easily haul a load of trash. The Hyundai appeals to me because it could make a great daily driver, and still be able to haul things that won't fit in a small SUV. I used to drive a Tucson, before the Frontier, and liked how it drove... but the cargo area was TINY. I found myself borrowing…
I tested the difference in my old Tucson (2011) on E10 versus ethanol free, there was no discernable change. Certainly not a big enough drop to justify the added cost.
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I fail to understand why manufacturers don't link the headlights to the wipers. In what situation would you be running your wipers that you wouldn't want your headlights on?
The EPA test cycle isn't a secret, I'm sure it's common for manufacturers to tune their vehicles to excel at the test. They just have to be careful not to inflate the test results too far from what their customers will see, Ford may have gotten a little ambitious.
I'll probably never tow 7,000 lbs, but I often haul a few hundred pounds of stuff from Lowe's. The Tucson had a tiny cargo area with the seats up, and with two small kids I couldn't fold them down very often. The most I tow is a 6x10 utility trailer, and it can only carry 3,000 lbs so I would never be over…
I wanted a double cab 5.7 Tundra. .. but I couldn't justify the bigger hit in gas mileage, my trade-in was a '11 Tucson that averaged 23MPG. The Frontier can tow 7,000lbs, averages 20mpg, and gets to 60 in under 7 seconds. The Tundra can do all of that (except 20mpg) but costs $10k more.
16 is what our old Odyssey averaged, idling kills your average.
Yes, but people routinely point to the EPA ratings of midsized trucks being so close to a full size, as a reason to buy a full size. Except few full size owners can match the EPA ratings, my Frontier is rated 17/22... and I average 20. The F150 that Ward tested was rated at 18/23... and they averaged 15.6MPG.
My Frontier is a V6 crew cab with the tow package, but 2WD. I don't need 4WD to tow/haul stuff, and we get an average of .5" of snow annually in South Carolina. Nothing wrong with wanting 4WD, but it would have been a waste of money for me.
That's about what I average in my 2WD Frontier 4.0 (20mpg), and I drive like the opposite of a hypermiler (hypomiler?). My coworkers/neighbors with Tundra's and EcoBoost F150's tend to average 15-17 driving with an egg under the pedal.
More entry-level than the ATS? When I test drove a 2.0T they said they'd do $27k OTD... how much more entry level can you get? A new Cimarron based on the Cruze maybe?