Towing capacity of Sprinter motorhome
My wife and I are evaluating the purchase of a 2015 Winnebago View or Itasca Navion 24J. They in essence are the same motorhome except for color schemes. We previously full-timed for two years in ...
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D.C.,
Your above comments were nicely worded and right on ... just don't try making them over at the TC forum where any anti-diesel talk - logical or otherwise - gets heavily roasted, with power generation and/or conversion physics pretty much falling prey to pure emotion.
My BIL recently traded in his high end Sprinter based Airstream Class B motorhome for a variety of reasons. He's in the middle of switching to a new pickup truck and TT combination. The pickup he chose was a big gas V8 with an eight-speed box for superb towing but with one twist -> it also gets "diesel-type" mileage. How ... it's Dodge's new variable cylinder count V8. On the level when cruising his big V8 runs on only 4 cylinders. (Hopefully a lot more reliably than Caddilac's attempt at this back in the 1980's.)
Wouldn't an eight-speed box and adjustable cylinder count be a great addition to the V10?!
Your above comments were nicely worded and right on ... just don't try making them over at the TC forum where any anti-diesel talk - logical or otherwise - gets heavily roasted, with power generation and/or conversion physics pretty much falling prey to pure emotion.
My BIL recently traded in his high end Sprinter based Airstream Class B motorhome for a variety of reasons. He's in the middle of switching to a new pickup truck and TT combination. The pickup he chose was a big gas V8 with an eight-speed box for superb towing but with one twist -> it also gets "diesel-type" mileage. How ... it's Dodge's new variable cylinder count V8. On the level when cruising his big V8 runs on only 4 cylinders. (Hopefully a lot more reliably than Caddilac's attempt at this back in the 1980's.)
Wouldn't an eight-speed box and adjustable cylinder count be a great addition to the V10?!
