I lived in the mountains and I had a Tacoma with the same engine/tran, it was great in the mountains, but the Bronco is much quicker. The Toyota's can go 85 MPH on hwy and only loses 2 MPG, but the Bronco drops twice as much or more. It also has 300HP compared to 190HP so there's that.I drove 4Runners for 20 years with the clunky 5speed and normally aspirated engine. We are always above 5K feet elevation, and often above 10K for skiing and off roading. The BRONCO is indeed a “rocket” compared to the 4Runner in this environment, and a pleasure to drive: acceleration, power available at high elevation, smooth transmission.
Sure I agree with this. I'm in AZ and people fly, but 85 would put you at the top end even then.Your math is good, but your assumption of the slowest going only 65, yes some do... or your experience where you live is way different from some of our states. Where I live 85% or more are going 75-85 mph in a 65 MPH zone.
A lot of the people going 65 are nervous drivers who think "everyone's else is driving too fast!" I lived with a women who was such a driver and she was so bad at freeway driving, she would leave for work an hour early to go 20 miles on side streets to avoid the freeway.
I live in a 19K population retirement community and some drive too fast for their age and abilities, but others think going too slow is safer, which it's not, it just pisses off everyone else. I'm talking about people who drive 10-15 MPH slower on a posted 25 MPH, that doubles the time to go just 2 miles. 2 miles at 30 mph takes 4 mins, at half speed it takes 8 mins and that's frustrating when it's someone driving slow because they can't see over the steering wheel.
I agree on short drives you don't save much time and on short drives I'm going for better fuel economy. On a 12 hour drive, doing 80-85 MPH saves 2 hours, and those couple of hours turns to 4 hours with Sunday traffic coming home from Las Vegas. If there's an accident and there always is add more time.Sure I agree with this. I'm in AZ and people fly, but 85 would put you at the top end even then.
Point being you need to increase your speed by 20mph over 20+ miles to save 5 min wherever that may be on the road. So if traffic is already doing 10 or so over, you're driving like an absolute maniac to save any meaningful time.
In my experience the dangerously fast drivers outnumber the dangerously slow drivers and if everyone is driving "too slow", the problem is you're likely exceeding traffic pace. Such has been my own observation of my occasionally inpatient driving.
Please don't drive the speed limit in Phoenix. At least try to keep up with trafficI drive the speed limit for long trips (i.e. Phoenix) otherwise, I drive it like I drove my Mustang "enthusiastically"
Yeah, I learned it's the indy 500 on the 10 freeway. The snowbirds piss me off every time I'm there with their overdramatic, over-cautious driving.Please don't drive the speed limit in Phoenix. At least try to keep up with traffic