I'm helping my friend sell his 2010 F-150. It just turned 150,000 km (93k miles), and I just noticed this afternoon it's got a resettable fuel economy display in the cluster.
And guess what! It hasn't been reset since day one!
It showed ...
16 L / 100 km = 14.7 MPG US
Holy cow, that's horrendous! Or is it? (Well, it's about 4 times more fuel use than I generally aim for in my fleet, so it certainly looks horrendous to me.)
But what does the EPA say?
This 4.6L 4x4 truck was rated for
16 MPG combined. I'm not sure which automatic transmission it has - apparently you could get it with a 4- or 6-speed. They both had the same combined rating, despite the 6-speed getting 20 on the highway vs. 18 for the 4-speed.
So I guess he didn't do
too badly after all.
Although he's burned through 24,000 L / 6340 gallons of gasoline.
At a buck a litre average up here, that works out to
$24,000 spent on fuel.
Yikes. That's more than I've spent to buy my last 15 cars, combined.
Anybody wanna buy a truck?
