2017 Ram 1500 Ecodiesel HD
With Ford expected to add a diesel and ten-speed to their aluminum-bodied F-150s for 2017, Ram engineers are working hard — likely focusing on many different bottlenecks, rather than a single technolo...
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Hybridhunter wrote:ShinerBock wrote:
.... Take a look at the baby Duramax, it out tows its gas counterparts and is comparable in unloaded performance. Same goes with 2500/3500 diesels where they easily out tow their gas counterparts and have similar unloaded performance. ....
Not even close actually..... The baby Duramax is way slower in every measurable way, loaded or unloaded, and it's not even close. Sure the diesel beats it in mileage, but not enough to even pay for itself over 2 lifetimes.
It doesn't matter which side of the debate you are on, you can't make up your own facts!
Motor Trend has the 2.8L Duramax faster than its gasoline I-4 2.5L in the quarter mile by .6 seconds and slower than the V6 3.6L by .8 seconds. Those are facts, and not made up. I would say that is comparable in unloaded performance to its two gasoline counterparts versus the Ecodiesel that is slower than both the 5.7L and the 3.6L.
The 2.8L diesel also has a higher tow rating than both the 2.5L and 3.6L in a crew cab 2wd short bed to where the Ecodiesel has a higher tow rating only to the 3.6L by 1,400 lbs in a crew cab 2wd which is mainly due to the 3.92 rear end available with the Ecodiesel and only a 3.55 rear ratio available in the 3.6L. If both the Ecodiesel and 3.6L had 3.55 in a crew cab 2wd, then the Ecodiesel would only tow more by 400 lb. The same crew cab 2wd with a 5.7L is rated to tow 1,490 lbs more than the Ecodiesel.
