26 MPG for light trucks by 2011

JakeInFla · 05-19-2009, 06:39 AM

U.S. to unveil new policy on auto fuel standards

After reading the declarations from the current administration regarding fuel consumption goals being set, I'm guessing it's a given the Titan is offically history.

26MPG? Maybe with a V-6! The one grey area on these new policies...is this policy going to be applied to only future vehicle designs or do you think they'll make and end run on the logic and make an attempt to enact legislation forcing a retro-active overhaul of the nations cars and trucks resulting in forcing people who own vehicles with low MPG to upgrade to "approved" models? :|

FLA-Titan · 05-19-2009, 07:44 AM

Hybrid Trucks are going to be the Future. Nothing puts out more Torque than an electric motor! GM has the Sierra which is a good start that gets 21 MPG and is capable of towing 6100 pounds . My guess in the next few years, we will start to see hybrid trucks that get 25 + MPG and towing at 10K mark.

wojowojo16 · 05-19-2009, 07:49 AM

small diesel

**Carbeaux** · 05-19-2009, 08:06 AM

No way would they try to retro it. Simply do away with the old ones by attrition.

Diesel hybrid maybe?

Shane06fl · 05-19-2009, 09:18 AM

One for sure the days of an affordable truck will be over. When that happens the only trucks that will be sold will be for work and very little play. There won't be too many daily driver trucks anymore.

SaintsTheMetal · 05-19-2009, 09:24 AM

Hey the 2.3L 4 cylinder Ford Ranger is getting 26 MPG... Highway!

paper1122 · 05-19-2009, 09:47 AM

[quote=JakeInFla;1706822]

26MPG? Maybe with a V-6! QUOTE]

Don't think so... I owned two V6 F150's with a 5spd, I get better mileage in the Titan. If you put an underpowered engine in a large vehicle you will get bad mileage.
The only things that will help trucks is: Lighter trucks, more effecient engines/diesel, make them slower.

*adamdude04* · 05-19-2009, 11:40 AM

I dunno guys..I think it could be possible.

I just picked up an 09 F150 crew cab XLT with a 5.4 V8...now I'm not going fully based on the information cluster, but I did a lot of highway driving this past weekend in that truck..in two days I logged about 680 miles. The information cluster was spitting out 24.8 mpg. That's in a full size, biggest F150 they offer.

Now again I'm not fully sure how correctly or even close those numbers are to true numbers, but needless to say I was impressed with the amount of driving I was able to do with one fill up

dogstar · 05-19-2009, 11:43 AM

Cafe standards are all smoke and mirrors. Its set up as a fleet avg. Car makers create, at least on paper a theoretical car that helps meet some govt number when combined w/ all their other cars. Trick here is nobody buys the car that gets the super high gas numbers because it is totally undrivable, but in theory you could wait 3 month and have one built.

b0ldfacelies · 05-19-2009, 12:02 PM

...b@stards! Who are they to try and help the gas problem!
There's no way they would take your truck away, so no worries! You'll get better ride, better gas mileage, better acceleration, friendlier to the enviroment (which for a lot of people they buy a truck to enjoy the enviroment even more), ect. I just can't see a downside.

SJYokel · 05-19-2009, 12:10 PM

How about the price as the first downside? Hybrids take an average of 6.5 years to hit their break-even point versus their gas-powered equivalents. How much more are you willing to spend on your next truck to save $100 a month in gas?

Delta15 · 05-19-2009, 01:45 PM

Doesn't the auto industry have enough issues right now without new CAFE standards?

*adamdude04* · 05-19-2009, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delta15

Doesn't the auto industry have enough issues right now without new CAFE standards?

What's the CAFE standards?

daptech · 05-19-2009, 02:31 PM

Hybrids are not for me........just more stuff that can cause
problems.........would prefer a small diesel to a hybrid.

bu_bear_sh99 · 05-19-2009, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adamdude04

What's the CAFE standards?

Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) is the sales weighted average fuel economy, expressed in miles per gallon (mpg), of a manufacturer’s fleet of passenger cars or light trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 8,500 lbs. or less, manufactured for sale in the United States, for any given model year.

NHTSA has a page on it that should help explain things.

C A F E Overview