All those gas ratings look way low. They must have had a heavy foot tester,
or just ran a bunch of 1/4 miles and 0-60's then went home. 16mpg in a
3700lb 3.4L toyota, that's way low too.
Jay W
4.7L Auto Sport+ C.C. 2wd Black
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>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:17:06 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Paul Macey <pmacey@ans.net>
>Subject: Re: DML: CR "Quad Cab" ratings
>
>FWIW, not stock but certainly not see 13 MPG:
>
>I have a 2001 DAK QC with AWD or full time 4WD...with a flowmaster
>cat-back, Jet Chip II, and the snorkle removed from the stock airbox, >I
>was getting 18.1 MPG
>
>After adding a z-tube with 9 inch Pro-Flow filter, 180 t-stat, and 3923s,
>I get between 16.1 to 16.7 MPG.
>
> 0-60 1/4 overall fuel
> > >economy price as tested
> > >Explorer 9.6 17.4 15
> > > 28,060
> > >Dakota 8.9 16.8 13
> > > 30,980
> > >Tacoma 9.6 17.4 16
> > > 27,021
> > >S-10 10.2 17.8 15
> > > 25,637
> > >Frontier 9.6 17.4 14
> > > 17,994
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