05 Manual Taco harder on gas than the auto?

I've always wondered how they got the gas mileage figures for manual transmissions, since individual driving habits probably affect them more than auto trannies. I mean...in the past, did they pick 20 drivers from some Toyota office, let them drive a vehicle, and use the stats from the person who got the best mileage? Perhaps now, they're taking the same 20 drivers and averaging their results.

Or, I'm totally wrong, and there's a mechanical design reason why the mileage is worse. In that case, never mind. :-)

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| | I've always wondered how they got the gas mileage figures for manual | transmissions, since individual driving habits probably affect them more | than auto trannies. I mean...in the past, did they pick 20 drivers from some | Toyota office, let them drive a vehicle, and use the stats from the person | who got the best mileage? Perhaps now, they're taking the same 20 drivers | and averaging their results. | | Or, I'm totally wrong, and there's a mechanical design reason why the | mileage is worse. In that case, never mind. :-) | |

I read an article about this where they had a specially trained driver who milked everything he could out of the car/truck he was driving to obtain the best mileage figures. The tests were conducted at a controlled track with no, or very little wind, near sea level with optimum temperatures and humidity. Hardly a real world scenario.

Jarhead

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

-John Adams

I allways take the manfactures estemates in vain. When working as a firefighter years ago we received training on the SCBA (air packs). The figures were given that a tank of air was to last 45 minutes. Reality was

20 to 30 minutes if you were not excited or working very much. After using one for a while I asked the manfacture rep how they came to the 45 minute use time. They explained that they hooked it to a manacan that simulated normal breathing and a tank lasted 45 minutes. Go figure.....

C.

I hope you slipped a "this is not a toy" trash bag over that rep's head for a minute or two, as a demo, and perhaps an illustration of why they should update their specs. :-)

i have a 2005 tacoma 4x4 with six speed v6 4.ol,18.5 in town,if you push it over seventy mileage drops real quick.yota2005