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Originally Posted by dirt bike dave
What year F150 and what year ranger?
3.0 or 4.0 Ranger?
Automatic F150 (very common) vs. 5 speed Ranger (very common)?
4x4 or 2x4?
FWIW, my '92 Reg Cab, long bed 5 speed 4.0 4x2 Ranger got about 5 mpg better than my SuperCab, '99 F150 4x2 F150 w/3.55 gears.
My dad had a mid '90's 3.0 Ranger extended cab 4x2 with 5 speed and he would get 30 mpg on the highway and 26 mpg all ardound driving, about 10 mpg better than his '01 V6 F150 Supercab with auto and 3.55. He drove slow, though.
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That had to be a 2.3L that got that kind of MPGs. When I had my Ranger and frequented those forums, nobody with a 3.slow could ever claim that kind of MPGs. Especially city MPGs. I can see the confusion for that era Ranger, since they are both...slow. The 3.slow was not good on gas when grannied, since it needs revs to do anything.
Anyway the difference between a Loaded 4x4 4.0L Ranger SCab and a reg cab/shorty 4.2L/5-speed base F150 might be close, but that's not a fair comparison.
While my old 94 2.3L SCab Ranger averaged around 25 MPGs, I'll take the increased utility of my SCab F150 and ~5 less MPGs average.