Are gas engines ever going to catch up?
Our creaky old Cummins powered truck (bought used) seats 4, does about 20-23mpg bobtail and 12mpg towing a 5th wheel trailer at 22,999lbs. It's mileage is somewhere in between hauling a camper and/or...
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You may get a supercharged gas engine to pull like a diesel, but it would be much less reliable and would definately not get anywhere near the mileage.
ib516 wrote:
I don't think a gasser will ever pull like a diesel, but I also don't think today's diesels will get the mpg the older ones do (2006 and older). Emissions regs have choked some of the mpg and all of the simplicity out of them. The new ones do pull like crazy though - that part they have definitely improved on.
