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The EB F-150 gets good fuel mileage if you are on a flat highway running 60-65mph. Once you add some hills, 400 to 500 lbs in the bed, or hook up to a trailer the fuel mileage goes in the toilet.
We had a F150 with the 5.0 and the other with the 3.5 EB at work. Both had a job box with about 400 pounds of tools. The 5.0 averaged 15.5 mpg and the 3.5EB was at 13mpg.
As designed, if you drive anything American made or built for this side of the pond and you try to keep up with traffic, its not designed or tuned that way from the get go.. Good ole' politics rears its dark head.
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Roman courtier during the reign of Nero.
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~ Undrstm8ed Trailermentry Write Up Pg.
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