I'll try to keep it short, a buddy lives in farm county Ohio, his neighbor a farmer bought 2 F150s new, one of em got like 50+ mpg and he said dealership told him the vehicle was slated for the European market and has "different" electronic mumbo jumbo for better mpg, IS this BS or if so how where with what etc do I rig mine to get 50+ ?

 

100% fiction

It's hard to get 50 from anything let alone an old truck and definitely not from just an electrical change

 

That's kinda my thinking on it too, although I have heard European vehicles get better than our's figures just one of ol boy's bs stories, thanks

 

It won't get you 50 but I believe the European vehicles sometimes came with small 4 cylinder diesels but that's not an electrical change and probably not legal for sale in America

 

European vehicles DO get better mileage. Their vehicles are smaller, have smaller engines, and many of them have manual transmissions.

 

He probably meant 50 kilometers per gallon. Which at 31 MPG, is still quite a story.

 

Plus, their gallons are bigger than ours.

UK MPG =/= US MPG

1 gallon imperial = 1.2 gallons US

Granted, that's just a technicality, and their vehicles really do get better mileage than our for the reasons stated. Just saying you can't compare stated mileage on websites and whatnot without converting them first.

But still, your buddy was blowing smoke up your backside for some reason. Not a shred of truth was said to you.

 

Taking all that into account it comes to a much more believable 25 mpg

 

Fuel taxes are much higher in Euroland. You don't want to know what they pay for a gallon. They don't use imperial gallons on the continent. But they sure would use a gasoline powered F150 if it got 50 mpg. With a Diesel engine is almost within the realm of believability.

 

Have I been sharing that wrong the whole time? I've never lived there, but I'm not the first to have brought it up. I realize they actually sell fuel in Liters (litres, lol ) over there, but from my understanding when they state MPG they're using the imperial gallon.

edit: again not living there, cursory research online shows they do calculate MPG using imperial..

http://mpg.webix.co.uk/

 

As I recall Britain uses imperial gallons not liters or us gallons for selling petrol as they would say

1 imperial gallon = 1.2 us gallon

 

I guess maybe a distinction should be made between Britain and the Continent. Britain is not Europe? Anyhoo, a liter is a liter, a gallon is a gallon, etc. The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

No matter how it's measured, it's expensive, and nobody is getting 50 mpg in an F150, that guy has been drinking bong water.

 

It is part of the European Union and the bong water does taste better

 

it's part of the EC, but Britain (wisely, imo) is not part of the Euro.

 

Europe doesn't have nox emmisions or something to that effect which is why diesels are more common. So if it really was meant for Europe it wouldn't have nox emmisions equipment which I believe would mean it wouldn't have an egr and would run leaner helping contribute to better mileage

I don't know much about emmisions so if that doesn't make sense feel free to correct me