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MARK_VANDERBENT
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Feb 20, 2014

Truck trends one year with ecoboost 14 mpg average

Interesting all this mpg talk and how the ecoboost is so good on fuel, and last issue of truck trend had a wrap up on them with truck for a year. They said good things about truck but what caught my a...
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Kevin_O_
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Feb 24, 2014
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Fordlover wrote:
You know that 14 mpg included plenty of towing right? For comparison The Ram Hemi they have for long term testing is < 1 MPG difference from the Ecoboost currently.

Hmm... links don't work, looking thru the pics quickly I saw two cars being towed.








So that proves the EB does not provide the great mileage Ford claimed it would. One mile per gallon better then the V8 Ram with an Hemi. Nothing to brag about IMO. But then it does add up right? :B

Don
It's not just the 1mpg you get better then the Ram, it is also all that available payload that Ford offers in there 1/2 tons! The Ram 1500's payload is certainly nothing to brag about. . :B

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