Posted: Mar 30 2008 at 8:26am | IP Logged

 With the crappy winter-blend RFG gas we have to use here in Louisville, I've gotten as low as 13.3 MPG out of my 4.0 SE King Cab, but that's ALL stop and go headache-grade traffic, too. Normally, on the same gas, it's more like 15 mpg, again, not nearly as good as what I'd like.

  On the highway, towing nothing at all, on the same gas, I get about 19.5 MPG.

 If I take a trip out of town, using other gas, it gets 20.5-21 MPG. Doing the same, in the summertime, using summer-blend no-RFG, I've gotten as good as 21.9 MPG, which is acceptable, for the amount of power that nice 4.0 provides. This is a new truck, only 6 months old, so I don't know what it will do after it's really broken in, but so far, it hurts me at the pump. I'm used to the old 2.4 inline 4 in the other Nissan trucks I've owned, so this is painful, but I'm adapting, I guess.

  I know the main culprit here is the ReFormulated Gas  (RFG) we have to use here because of the EPA, but I still don't like it.