You are correct, these trucks are close and both great at what they were meant to do, and I'm adding 35s in a couple of weeks, so it doesn't look like I'll be trying to race anyone....LOL......as far as MPG, I don't know how those magazine people get 10 mpg, as you can probably tell, I drive the **** out of my truck, ***** to the wall everywhere and I get about 13-14mpg, and on those trips where I drive like a civilized person, I get better than that....