Gas Mileage

My experience with manual transmission and cruise control has not been good in hilly conditions. Cruise opens the throttle more attempting to maintain set speed (an automatic would probably unlock and downshift).

 

I agree. But even on moderate hills, my cruise is sometimes just plain stupid going flat to the floor (sometimes downshifting) in order to regain the 3mph lost. So I use it only on flat flat flat

 

there should be a 5mph tolerance on the Tacoma.

 

I'm not complaining. Just don't need to go off roading like many of you.

 

Here in NE Florida I am getting a very consistent 19.3 to 19.5 mpg on my "new-to-me" (135k miles) 2009 4.0 DC auto with 80% 65 to 75 mph rural, and 20% "in-town" 30 to 50 mph driving. Oddly just a tad better than the EPA's overall rating--however this is here which leads me to ask...

What are "hills"? They sound bad, kind of like "cold" and "winter"?

 

Think of 100% humidity, something Florida has, rather than "cold" and "winter", which you don't have.

 

Negative, not here on the coast in NE Florida...

 

19,000 - 25,000 RPM? Dude, that's screamin'!