Ford Fuel Mileage?
The window stickers don't list the fuel mileage. I'm considering a brand new 2017 to 2018 "Work Truck" Ford F-250 Super Duty with the V10 engine and auto trans. ( The work truck series costs...
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Retired JSO wrote:
My 6.2 with 3:73 rear gear gets 7 1/2 mpg average pulling our 25’ toy hauler 65 mph. Toyhauler has a gas golf cart for a total weight of 8,558 lbs.
Toy haulers tend to be tall, wide and boxy. Horrible aerodynamics. I recently pulled a single axle box trailer about 500 miles with at least half of that empty and it couldn't have weighed much more than 1500lbs with the load in it. I was astonished at how hard it was to pull compared with a tandem axle flat bed that I use quite a bit or even a 3 horse trailer. It was like pulling a parachute. Weight is a factor around town and on hills but on the highway aerodynamics can be much more important.
