For those whining about the transmission..

It's a 6 speed.. once you figure out how to drive it... it saves gas like it's suppose to


And that's my daily one way commute.. driving through mountains, hills and some city with traffic all over

 

Why am I sensing incoming salvos on the way?

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/before-posting-anything-in-3rd-gen-read-this.411562/

Don't be that guy.

 

Yes it will save gas

 

Did you take that picture and post this while driving at 30mph?!

 

No my wife took the pic lol and I posted it later stopped

 

here it comes

 

What he said....60-65mph on hwy, barely push the gas, as soon you try to pass someone it will drop mpg. Also get behind a semi, but don't be stupid close, even 50ft away, it still help mpg. Look up Mythbusters on getting behind a 18 wheeler.

 

Whoah, not driving like an idiot saves gas?

 

Yep and two overdrive gears will hunt at certain speeds. It's not really a defect, just something to learn how to adapt to. Eventually it smooths out.

No problems at all with my transmission, just different than my old 5 speed.

 

I am not a person whining about transmission. But this thread has opened my eyes some... I apparently do not know how to drive efficiently.

 

I didn't like the automatic at first coming from a 6 speed manual but as the truck learn my driving habits it gets better and better

 

LOL, me neither, I haven't got better them 16.3 with 1,400mi on it.

 

That's extremely strange. I have the same truck. My tank average (combo of about 50% highway/country roads and 50% city) has been consistently at 22+ mpg. That's calculated manually, not computer readout. It would be nice if Toyota could figure out what the deal is! Unless you let your truck run to warm up for a 1/2 hour every day, I can't see even approaching that bad of mileage. I usually just run in S-4 around town and S-5 on back country roads that are twisty. Perhaps all the owners of the "low mpg" rigs should sent a letter to Toyota asking what the problem is.

 

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No excessive warm up unless it's cold. I do very little or "no" highway miles, just the normall driving around one would do in the smallish Appalachians of Western Pa. I did switch from the stock 245's to 265's almost immediately though. Not sure that would effect it a whole lot, would it? I'm happy with it, I'm not complaining unless I should... (first time Taco owner)

 

Fuelly tells the real story on fuel economy for this truck. Averages are closer between 18 - 19 mpg. Anything outside of that range is an outlier

 

the average for the 2016 V6s on Fuelly is around 18.6, which is pretty much what I am averaging. Not sure how others are getting such high MPG. A large portion of my driving is highway, where I get around 20-22 MPG.

 

Rather than seeing their narrow samples of snapshots in time I'd respect their numbers more if they actually recorded it in a program like fuelly

 

I average about 21ish

 

20mpg in Honolulu traffic not mad about that at all.