I had a 4.7 in this truck:



It was a 2002, I bought it in 2005 with 40K on it. When I had it repo'ed 4 yrs later, it still had under 100K on it.

Two biggest complaints, 14MPG was it, and no low end torque.

Didn't matter, beat or babied, uphill or downhill, tail wind or into the wind, it never got above 14 MPG. When I owned this truck, a member from Fla claimed his consistently got over 20 MPG.

Its hard to put into words the lack of bottom end, it was most noticeable when you had to slow down, way down, for some reason and wanted to get back up to speed without having to mat it....it wasn't happening.

Maybe all the issues I had were the typical '1st year' problems with a new/redesigned model? I don't know. Once the truck cleared 75K miles, it started spitting parts faster than I could pay it off, so I let it go. I think it turned 90K just before it left.