MPG 2024 Tacoma Pro

What king of MPG are people seeing on the 24" I force max in a Tacoma Pro.I can't get over 14 on the highway in Eco mode.

 

Friday was two days ago

 

How many miles are on your odometer?

 

503

 

Might want to hold off judging it for a little longer.

The fuelly phone app is an easy way to track it. My stats so far…

https://www.fuelly.com/car/toyota/tacoma/2024/crispytacolover/1306047

 

I'm at 5000 miles on my pro and I get around 16. I don't use eco and occasionally use sport.

 

Drive Mode should make no discernible difference for highway driving. It changes throttle mapping and reduces HVAC intensity. At constant speeds, neither of these should have any impact on MPG.

 

TRD Jon talks about only getting 18.4 from his Pro (with <1,500mi) but says it totally his fault because he feels like he's driving a race car and isn't driving it easy.

If you are only getting 14 on the highway (and that's what the computer is also saying) then something is wrong. Easy to have a Toyota tech ride in the car for a couple minutes with the computer displaying 14 for them to agree it's not right.

 

Try normal mode or taking it out of eco mode. Also need to wait until you have more miles, it's still breaking in.

 

My impression of turboed motors or probably anything with low end torque you are going to want to get in the throttle. The other week I was coasting up to the speed limlit, had to be on the gas as I was going up the ramp. Exterminator truck in the right lane it wasn't a Tacoma. Behind me in the left lane was an ecoboost presumably a 3.5tt as it was a 4dr with a longer bed. Next thing the ecoboost is next to me and right behind the exterminator truck. There wasn't anywhere for the eb to go. Had there been a 3rd lane that truck could have easily passed us both. The low end torque will have you wanting to use it, that will come at the price of fuel economy.

 

500 miles isn't enough to come to any conclusions. Most engines do better after a few thousand miles. It's not a good idea to drive it like grandma when breaking in the engine. Drive like you stole it for a while at varying speeds. Some city, some highway. Once you get 2000-3000 miles on it get it out on a long road trip and see what it does. By long road trip I mean at least 2 tanks of gas.

Don't trust the onboard display, at least not yet. Some vehicles are right on the money, my 2014 F150 has never been wrong by more than 1/2 mpg and most of the time is exactly what I get manually. Our Explorer is always off by 2 mpg and the Honda we used to have was off 4-5 mpg every time. Check it manually for a few months to get a feel for how close your truck will be.

The driving mode can make a big difference in fuel mileage, but not always the way you think. Sport mode keeps it in lower gears longer and doesn't even allow it to go into the highest gear. If you're driving at a constant speed under 50-60 mph Sport mode will probably give you better mpg. Same when driving in hilly terrain or mountains.

Eco quickly upshifts and tries to keep it in the highest gear. That's not always best for fuel mileage. If the engine is in a gear that's too high and the engine is running low rpm's the engine is actually working harder. Sometimes more engine speed uses less gas. If you're running 70 on level ground with no load Eco is good.

 

I've never seen a vehicle that had such a wide discrepancy between the reported fuel economy numbers from the EPA and the real life fuel economy numbers.

5000 miles on my truck, it's an off-road it's not the pro, I get 17 to 18 highway.

Eco mode, normal mode, it doesn't matter. It's just kind of dismal. I've tried all the different modes. Normal may be a little bit better than Eco. I don't know. I don't notice any difference.

 

I'm sure the EPA or who ever did the testing used similarly equipped trucks. The 4G is a heavy truck, it's aluminum but the drive shaft looks the same size that's on a 1/2 ton the aero on the Tacoma might be the worst out there although probably not much different than any other TC midsize, 1/2 ton areo is just better overall. Being a 4cyl it's probably going to take a little more energy/fuel to get things moving over something with more displacement.

 

You guys gotta get this out of your heads. The number of cylinders has no correlation with the energy/fuel required to "get things moving." More cylinders is not necessarily more betterer.

 

I wish I had a view across all 2024 Tacomas sold, not just the small sample at fuelly.com

 

I don't get why semi trucks use I6 diesels, clearly they should be running V12's because more is better!
I laugh at all the YouTube comments on 6G 4Runners complaining about the "4 banger" and same for all the 1/4 ton trucks on the market as well. So many people out of touch with reality.

 

Here, have another datapoint.

I'm averaging a bit over 18 in mixed driving. The cold weather and snow has dropped it down from about 20. Running 87AKI fuel with an unknown but indicated "up to 10% ethanol content" fuel. I've only got about 3200mi, though. Ain't even close to broke in yet. It got set to ECO a few weeks ago to make it a little more manageable in the snow (gawd do these tires suck). Happily, I'm doing about the same fuel economy wise as I was with the Subaru Legacy 3.6R I used to drag about town.

 

I don't know what they did, I don't know how they did it, but I suspect Toyota figured out some sort of secret sauce to perfecting those test circuit fuel economy numbers for the window sticker certification.

 

If you take a 2.3t4 Ranger and a 2.7ttv6 Ranger the 2.7 is going to take less effort to move same mas. The 4cyl going to have to produce more energy and use more fuel making that energy. The difference in fuel consumption is going to be marginal. Between the two Ford engines how could this be proven or disproven.

I have a 2.7tt v6 now and had a 3.5tt v6 both 337 gears and both 145" wheelbase. The 2.7 takes more energy to move the same mass as the 3.5, the 3.5 got slightly better fuel econmy because the motor took less energy to make the same power. It's marginal and almost not noticeable at all but there's a difference.

 

TRD OR (not Pro). 10165 miles tracked in Fuelly: 21.4 mpg.