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Hell Belcho
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Oz
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Whats a good fuel efficient truck? (4 cyl)
I'm tired of my gas pig van and want to get a little truck with a 4cyl for basic utility and so forth. I wont be towing any trailers or anything like that. Any suggestions?
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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TOY-OTA.
My 1991 4cyl truck is at almost 200K, with only a timing chain (common,), starter, and clutch so far. I'm gonna run it into the ground.
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10-15-2007, 10:59 AM
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10-15-2007, 11:04 AM
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Actually any small Japanese truck. Hint: Ford Ranger is a Mazda design, but our '99 (4.0 V-6, delivers an honest 20 mpg) was assembled in the USA. I don't know that the 4 cylinder models deliver all that much more mileage.
Ours is a loaded "XLT"...4 doors, 2 wheel drive, thus the better mileage than the 4X4 models. Man, I love it's air conditioning...blows very cold.
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10-15-2007, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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I think the Chevy Colorado/GMC Canyon have a 5 cylinder with "active fuel management".
I have it on my Silverado and I see 22 mpg highway/16 mpg city.
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10-15-2007, 11:49 AM
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I'm with Bill
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Jensen Beach, FL
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Toyota's are all I use for work trucks.
I drive the truck on the right and get 21-24 MPG with about 400 lbs of equipment in the bed. Now, when any of m employees drive the truck, they get 17 MPG. I figure this is a combo of hard driving and not knowing how to drive. The Toyota's we retired are still running strong today. My brother in law has one of them and it has 280K miles on it and still runs great. He just does oil changes on it. 
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My old 87 Toyota 22R with carb only got about 22mpg avg, vs my B4000 Mazda which comes in about 20. The later FI models should get over 25 I would think.
Wish there was a small diesel pickup...
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I'm with Bill
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I too, wish there was a small 4 cyl diesel pickup available I know Toyota has one overseas and Isuzu used to have one as well. I see them on E-bay and Autotrader and have considered buying one and restoring it.
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