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Originally Posted by aerohead
MOTORTREND Magazine has had an arrangement with a company called Emission Analytics ( EM ), to conduct EPA-esque REAL MPG testing.
And though heavy duty trucks are not required to publish fuel economy ratings, on many MOTORTREND long-term tests, they'll have EM go ahead and conduct their REAL MPG tests on both 2500 and 3500 series pickups.
The current F-350 TD gets an actual 18-mpg HWY, 'naked.'
So does the RAM 3500 TD.
I believe the all-aluminum F-150, EcoBoost, 4WD, short-bed 'averages' about 19-mpg, 'naked.'
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This is great info. Considering a similarly equipped gas 2.7 ecoboost f-150 vs 3.0 TD f-150 is 24 mpg vs 28 mpg, according to EPA test results, we could probably expect a gas F-350 to get 15 mpg in the motortrend test. I just did 24/28*18=15.4 to account for diesel's better MPG than gasoline. If we scale up the MPG to match what the EPA measured on the F-150 for hwy, assuming its the 3.5 ecoboost, which gets 23 mpg hwy, then 23/19*15.4=18.7 mpg hwy for a gasoline F-350.
Anyone have any thoughts?