Tacoma Fuel Economy

25mpg's 99% highway at 60mph controlled by myself so that it won't down shift on the hills, I drive the highway at 7am so there are very few cars that I need to really maintain my speed for to not be a douche so I can lose some speed and not let it shift down. I do really wish I had the 5 speed manual.

 

We tried to switch to metric, and I am all for that, but the American public is just too damn stupid to switch. Instead we are stuck with stupid English units like "Slugs"...

I get 19 to 21 when I am home in the northeast one the highway, I get 16 to 18 driving to and from work in traffic and I get 16 to 18 on the highway when I am down south, because their speed limits are higher, the truck doesnt get good MPGs at 80+ MPH...

I have a V6 Auto 4x4. It is only slightly worse than I expecten when I bought the truck.

 

'11 5-lug manual lifted on 31s w/ 16x8 procomps

I get 21.5mpgs (corrected) 85% city 15% highway.

my commute to work is 8 miles each way 100% city.

 

Don't sweat it because you'd be luggin the shit out the engine and you'd be downshifting anyway.

 

I was getting 13/15 out of my 93 5.7 350 Silverado, so the 18.5 (overall) out of my 'ten Taco is welcomed.

 

Made a trip to Charleston, SC this past weekend this is what I ended up with.

 

Read below

 

what kind of guage is that warhorseforever? it looks pretty handy

 

Sorry for taking so long to respond it's an app on my phone called "Torque" and it uses a bluetooth OBDII port dongle.
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/performance-tuning/183560-write-up-torque-app-obd2-reader.html

 

Here is the site for Torque. http://torque-bhp.com/

This has been the best 25$ I've ever spent in my life. I use this app every day and its just awesome. Broken Tusk has a page reviewing Torque and you can read the last few pages there are instructions on how to add Transmission temp's to it, which comes in handy when towing.

Warhorse posted the link to the Torque review.

 

wish they had this app for iphone

 

I average about 18-19mpg and thats with driving about 60% city. I've hit 24 when going all highway.

-NewSchool19

 

What computer is that?

 

Look about two posts above yours...

 

Awesome, finally an app for DROID that seems worthy lol
Thanks for posting that.

 

They do, check the website or the app store.

Lowcountry it is great I was going to use it for a while so that I could get an ultraguage but now that I have a new phone I use my old droid purely for this reason.

 

Which module did you use Warhorse?

 

What do you mean? I had the dongle that was linked in BrokenTusk's write-up/review.

 

My 2.7 gets 25 overall but I have gotten 34mpg.

 

I've been averaging a little over 22 mpg. Thats with a 4 cyl 4x4 auto Access cab with the base trim. Also have a ARE cap on it too,didn't notice any drop in mpgs when I added it. Also I did find that when using non-ethanol fuel my mpg jumped to over 25 mpg. I can confirm this as I had to drive to Florida back and forth this summer several times. When going from Atlanta to Eastpoint, Fl I averaged 22 mpg using 87 octane from Quiktrip however, on the drive back I was buying 87 ocatane marine grade fuel meaning no ethanol was in it so I was able to repeat the 25mpg several times.