Horsepower, Torque, and MPG Confirmed

[TRIMMELL]

My 2014 Tremor w/4.10s gets better than the EPA avg. (17) on the window sticker with MPT tunes.
Keep in mind the trip meter rolls over every 10k miles and some yahoo at the dealership cleared my trip meter with 7.6 miles on it.

And? It's 2wd, low to the ground and has an ecoboost doesn't it with low profile performance tires? My 14' Silverado 5.3 4WD pulls 2mpg more on the highway than the 22mpg on the window sticker too. Completely different trucks compared to a Raptor with heavy wheels/tires and all the wide body bits, bumpers etc.

 

[NASSTY]

And? It's 2wd, low to the ground and has an ecoboost doesn't it with low profile performance tires? My 14' Silverado 5.3 4WD pulls 2mpg more on the highway than the 22mpg on the window sticker too. Completely different trucks compared to a Raptor with heavy wheels/tires and all the wide body bits, bumpers etc.

Nope... 4x4 with 34.5" mud tires that weigh 77 lbs each.

 

[TRIMMELL]

Nope... 4x4 with 34.5" mud tires.

I thought the tremor package was the 2wd truck that was kind of like a new lightning?

I can't say I've seen very many but for some reason I was thinking they were all 2wd and sat pretty low to the ground like the older lightnings.

I'm still confused to why you're quoted me earlier. Is your truck the 5.0L and you were going along with what I was saying or what?

 

[NASSTY]

I thought the tremor package was the 2wd truck that was kind of like a new lightning?

It was available in FX2 or FX4.

 

[TRIMMELL]

It was available in FX2 or FX4.

5.0L V8? 17mpg+ is pretty good if so with the almost 35's.

 

[yenrod]

Flame away but I'm not impressed with 18mpg. They have hyped this ecoboost like crazy and yes it has more power but its also turbo charged and much smaller displacement and the new truck is lighter with an extra 4 gears in the transmission. I expected more than a 2mpg increase for all the hype and changes in the truck. They probably could have supercharged the 5.0L with a somewhat conservative tune and had similar fuel economy numbers with similar power numbers and wouldn't have had the huge shitfest from everyone hating on the ecoboost in an offroad oriented truck.

Why wouldn't Ford have just admitted that the leaked power numbers were true and that the numbers getting out was an accident when the cat was clearly out of the bag. Ford makes no sense with some of their marketing decisions.

I pretty much agree on most all of this. Of course better mpg is a good thing, at least for me and most I would say, but for me, I wasn't overly concerned with that aspect. I knew it would not be a 10/14 range, which would make me likely reconsider at price point.

Marketing, or maybe lack there of, I am with you therefor sure..When are the magazines going to publish testing? I would think that is about to take place if not already?

 

[TRIMMELL]

I pretty much agree on most all of this. Of course better mpg is a good thing, at least for me and most I would say, but for me, I wasn't overly concerned with that aspect. I knew it would not be a 10/14 range, which would make me likely reconsider at price point.

Marketing, or maybe lack there of, I am with you therefor sure..When are the magazines going to publish testing? I would think that is about to take place if not already?

With a truck of this magnitude you would think their priorities would be to get information out, get testers driving the trucks and making sure any potential customer that wants information has all the information they could dream of. I'm definitely in for better mpg but to only gain 2mpg on the highway over the v8 just doesn't seem worth the tradeoffs of the v6 in my opinion. Ford has such potential with these specialty vehicles but they do the weirdest crap.

 

[2014RubyRed]

Just for arguments sake - I wonder what the mpg would be if they shoved a 6.2L into the new truck? Little lighter overall (300 lbs) and the 10 speed trans would surely equate to higher mpg, don't you think? Maybe even get close to the supposed gains that we are seeing now with the TTV6.....

 

[harrisb]

Just for arguments sake - I wonder what the mpg would be if they shoved a 6.2L into the new truck? Little lighter overall (300 lbs) and the 10 speed trans would surely equate to higher mpg, don't you think? Maybe even get close to the supposed gains that we are seeing now with the TTV6.....

The 10 speed they said contributes almost nothing to mpg, I find that hard to believe but that is what the engineer said in one of the vids. It was the same vid where they revealed the raptor HO motor has different Pistons, exhaust manifold and turbos than the reg 3.5. It probably would be close in mpg with the 6.2

What's the weight difference between the 6.2 and the 3.5tt? The 10 speed weighs more than the 6spd, the body weighs less. Be an interesting comparo for sure as the weight comes and goes on the new model. I'm sure the boxed frame is also heavier and who knows about the 3.0 shocks, moonroof, etc

 

[crash457]

Just for arguments sake - I wonder what the mpg would be if they shoved a 6.2L into the new truck? Little lighter overall (300 lbs) and the 10 speed trans would surely equate to higher mpg, don't you think? Maybe even get close to the supposed gains that we are seeing now with the TTV6.....

The world may never know.