Ford Released Official MPG Ratings For 2019 Ford Ranger

[85_Ranger4x4]

If it's not benefitting the corn farmers either I wish they'd make it go away. Brazil runs most of their cars on alcohol or E85 but they have sugar cane to make it out of. If E85 was available everywhere compression ratios could go way up and engines could get smaller and make the same power but it would take years to phase out gas as a fuel.

It might be helping to some degree but corn prices have really dropped since it came out.

We kinda got in the viscous circle like they did during the depression. Good prices so just about everything you can get a tractor over was turned into farmland. Market gets flooded, prices go down... so then you try open up more yet to make up the difference.... which makes the prices go down more.

Corn prices have been miserable for while so last year a lot of guys planted soybeans back to back since they make a little more money. Iowa had the biggest soybean crop on record. Any guesses what it did to the soybean market?

 

[19Walt93]

It is kind of a waste to make fuel out of something you could eat or turn into whiskey.....

 

[Ranger850]

It is kind of a waste to make fuel out of something you could eat or turn into whiskey.....

it's still fuel if you eat or drink it, human fuel. So it's technically the same thing

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It is kind of a waste to make fuel out of something you could eat or turn into whiskey.....

IMO we already eat too much corn. Cheap sugar/cheap filler.

 

[19Walt93]

Given a choice between eating the corn that ethanol is made out of or the crude oil that gas comes from I'll have some more corn.

 

[sgtsandman]

I just saw a TFL Video that clarifies their results a bit.

Apparently, Ford's test loop for mpg and EPA certification is set a 55 mph. Well, duh! Of course the numbers are going to be better at that speed. That's in the mpg sweet spot for most vehicles.

When TFL did their real world testing, they were going as fast as 80 mph, I think they said in Utah. The faster you go, the further your mpg is going to drop, so it makes sense. And it makes sense as to why I so rarely ever get close to their mpg ratings with my 2011 Ranger.

55 mph mpg testing for highway numbers hasn't been a realistic test since they stopped using 55 mph as the maximum allowable posted speed on the highway. Most here are 65 and 70 mph, some States are higher or unlimited in certain sections. So, the numbers are never going to match up in real world testing as long as 55 mph is the standard.

 

[Dirtman]

Corn always gives me gas...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

55 mph mpg testing for highway numbers hasn't been a realistic test since they stopped using 55 mph as the maximum allowable posted speed on the highway. Most here are 65 and 70 mph, some States are higher or unlimited in certain sections. So, the numbers are never going to match up in real world testing as long as 55 mph is the standard.

Iowa is 55 yet on highways. Nebraska is 60 for most generic two lanes. Interstate is 65 in Iowa, 75 in Nebraska.

 

[19Walt93]

It's not Ford's test loop, it's dictated by the EPA to hopefully level the playing field for the manufacturers so you can use the numbers to compare vehicles. It also happens on a chassis dyno and not on a road, that's why VW's diesel cheat worked. When their PCM saw only the front wheels turning the emissions system was functional, when all 4 wheels were turning it was disabled to improve mileage and power. If you spend your life in bumper to bumper traffic, carrying a full load of cargo, or going 80 mph, you're probably going to get less mileage.

 

[2002edgeplussupercab]

Most of the interstate system is 70. Most of the state highways are 55. Makes sense to test at 55. Most people have a daily commute consisting of state and county roads/hwys where they might not go faster than 55.

 

[RoofHopper]

I've been very happy with the mileage on mine, currently at 22.8 MPG average at 995 miles (70/30 city/highway). I have been taking it relatively easy on it through the break in period, and I've heard that after 1k miles it may run a little richer but we'll see. It's a lot better than the 14 MPG I was getting in my Silverado

 

[19Walt93]

Gas mileage should improve with miles as things break in, you can barely turn a new rear end by hand due to preload, for example. 22.8 is better than I've ever got with a 4.o sohc and you've got way more power.

 

[RoofHopper]

Definitely not griping about the MPG, I've been holding pretty steady between 22.4-22.8 MPG per fill up with hand calculation. 21.6 lifetime average so far with 1480 miles

 

[sgtsandman]

Definitely not griping about the MPG, I've been holding pretty steady between 22.4-22.8 MPG per fill up with hand calculation. 21.6 lifetime average so far with 1480 miles

Sounds like a winner to me.

 

[bluemeate]

why am i able to get 27mpg out of a 20year old engine? shouldnt this truck get like 37mpg or something? is it bloated with way more weight and height and environmental issues that bring down mpg?