You may remember back in April I wrote that we'd traded in our 2015 Ford F-350 Diesel 4wd pickup and RV on a new truck. What we traded for is a 2023 Ford F-150 hybrid 4wd pickup with the Limited trim level.
I think the F-150 is our fourth F series truck, obviously we've liked them as we keep buying more. We've subsequently put about 3000 miles on the new truck.
Today Instapundit posts a link to a Car and Driver review of a Toyota Tundra hybrid pickup. C&D only got 16 mpg, somewhat below what Toyota claimed. Frankly, I was amazed it did so poorly, I believe C&D was surprised too.
We've mostly driven our new F-150 hybrid on trips of 100 miles or more, but it is averaging a little over 23 mpg which is an improvement over the F-350's 16-18 mpg when not towing. We don't plan to tow with this truck, it has a locking bed cover so we can stow luggage or whatever out of sight and the weather.
I'll freely admit we might get poorer mileage if we did a lot of in-town, stop and go driving, but we have an SUV for that.
