Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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transamz9 wrote:Sport45 wrote:rhagfo wrote:
Some don't need diesel, some do!
I disagree. Nobody "needs" diesel. Some just want it, can afford it, and like it. Gas engines will get you anywhere a diesel can.
My next truck will be a diesel 4x4 without a doubt. But not because I "need" it. I'm just at a place in my life now (kids out of college, nearing retirement, etc.) that I can afford to pamper myself a bit.
If I don't like the diesel I'll go back to gas. That decision will be made in the next few years.
If somebody was to put a ~5 liter turbocharged gasoline engine in a 1-ton for significantly less upgrade price than the diesel that is probably the way I'd go. With a modest 8 psi of boost it would act like a 7.5 liter at sea level even on the higest mountain pass. It wouldn't get the miles per gallon of a diesel, but the cost per mile would be close enough for me.
So if you were full timing and towing 18-20,000# through the mountains you would still go with the high revving turbo gasser?
I'll take an F-550 with the 30-valve V10 for that weight.
