F150 5.0 vs Tundra
Good Morning! I have a Springdale 260TBL that checks in a 4890 Dry. We have been towing it with a crew cab GMC 1500 with the 5.3. The truck handles it fine but it is very under powered. The truck h...
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camp-n-family wrote:Tundra hasn't changed the 5.7 or the tranny since 2007. The EPA ratings have consistently stayed around 13/17 to 14/18 depending on the year, and whether it was a 4x2 or 4x4.blackgrizz550 wrote:My Tundra was lifted with 305/55r20 AT tires and mileage wasn't any worse than others. I would get 17mpg hwy, 14mpg city and averaged 9.8mpg towing our 34' 7600lbs trailer. I could probably get better but tend to have a heavy foot on the highway. All hand calculated, even though the computer was pretty accurate. The 5.7l with 4.30 was a bulletproof tow beast. Pulled way better than my current truck.
What kind of MPG can be expected with the Tundra? Some say it is horrible, some say not.
My GMC gets 15 city, 17 hwy and 9-10 towing the camper.
The 2016 and newer Tundras have a 38gal tank.
We used to own a 2012 Tundra 5.7. Got 8-10 MPG towing a 7,000 lb. trailer. Under ideal conditions we got: true stop & go city 12-13 MPG; suburbs 14-15 MPG; interstate 17 MPG at 75-80 MPH.
A friend of mine has a 2015 F150 5.0 V8 with an EPA of 15/21. It consistently gets 2-3 better MPG's than our 5.7 Tundra under the same conditions. HP and torque numbers are very similar even though it's a smaller engine.
I've driven a number of F150 3.5 Ecoboosts. They each got the same MPG's our 5.7 Tundra did. Very interesting in light of the fact the Ecoboost's EPA ratings are 3-4 MPG's higher than the Tundra 5.7.
