I was in the US recently & stopped into a Dodge dealer to check out the trucks. The window sticker on a Ram 1500 4x4 with the hemi said that the truck gets 18 mpg hwy.
Here in Canada the sticker says the same truck gets 26 mpg!!!! The Canadian gallon is slightly bigger but not enough to make that much of a difference!
What gives, is the Canadian sticker slightly exaggerated??????

 

Don't you guys use kilometers not miles? Could that have something to do with it?

 

"FUEL CONSUMPTION: City 16.2 L/100 km (17 mpg), Hwy. 10.8 L/100 km (26 mpg)"

This is what I found on a review website (wheels.ca), don't know what the differance would be in the US compared to Canada. Either way I have not seen that good of fuel economy in my Ram. I am lucky to hit 17mpg on the highway.

 

I'm lucky to get 12!

 

I am pretty sure that we have alot different testing regulations then out neighbours to the south of us. Canada's testing is a joke and needs to change. I am sure we can get 26 mpg if we drove through Saskatchewan though

 

It actually say's MPG & not kilometers. Strange yes, as we are supposed to be Kilometers per liter. I even asked the sales dude & he said it is mpg as stated on the window sticker.

 

If Canada uses the Imperial gallon, it is 4.54 litres. In the US, a gallon is 3.8 liters. Therefore, the Imperial gallon is 20% larger than the US one. If the testing regimes were the same, I would expect the Canadian truck to show 18 x 1.2=~22mpg. The testing regimes therefore can't be the same.

That said, I've found the US highway figures to be overly pessimistic. I get 22mpg out of both the '09 and the '10 on a good Interstate run. They are both Hemi 4x2 crew cabs.

 

Either way its a load of ****, they won't get 26mpg, unless your coasting in neutral down a hill

 

my dodge gets close to 23 MPG on highway and thats at about 110km =) maybe i was just lucky though.

 

My current truck is a 95 Ram 1500 to which I want to upgrade to something newer. There are lots of 2008's around here selling for much less than new, ( 18-$20,000ish). When I saw the 2010 sticker mpg indicating 26MPG highway, I thought it would be more feasible to go new, but is the 2010 fuel economy that much better than the 2008??? Is it really worth spending the extra 12 grand for brand new?
Thanks for any opinions or actual mpg stats anyone can give me!