back to gas v diesel
An rv owner who traded his diesel for the 7.3. He talks towing, fuel, payload etc and does qualify it from the perspective of towing a 12,000 lb travel trailer. godzilla towing Thought a few may fi...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:
There is a reason you see a class 8-10 trucks with diesel engines in them.
Sure for decades diesel fuel was cheaper per gallon and you got better MPG with diesel...win-win for a truck intended to put on 50-100k miles per year. You netted maybe 30-50% more miles per $1.
This lead to manufacturers almost exclusively designing motors for class 8-10 trucks as diesels because the gas engines wouldn't sell.
Swing back 15-20yrs ago and suddenly diesel is more expensive than gas, so the the fuel savings are much smaller but everyone is hard wired to spec a diesel engine and a big durable gas engine would have to be designed from the ground up (and yes, you can design a gas engine that will put out equivalent power and have similar long term durability...there is just no market for it.)
