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Old 09-14-2014, 11:46 PM   #9 (permalink)
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The new full size Toyota is actually about the worst MPG on the market. They never used to care because the sales of all their good MPG trucks offset their bad ones. Ford sells so many F150s they have to worry more about CAFE standards. But the new CAFE agreement seems to put the Tundra out there by itself because of it's size and the smaller trucks don't help their larger size light truck average. Seems to me the 2015 Tundra needs a 18 MPG combined EPA rating to meet the standards. Even the 2wd V6 doesn't make it let alone the 5.7 4x4 which they sell the most of.

Oh, I see the penalty is $55 per truck per MPG over so they probably just tack $300 on to the price of a $40,000 truck and don't worry about it.
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