Diesel vs gas for truck campers?
Have posted a few questios phere on the truck camper forum asking for help in down sizing to a TC and thanks for the help so far, I have been going over the weights of the TC's that we have looked at...
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twodownzero wrote:While I can't speak for GM, Ford dropped their manual transmissions due to less then 1 percent of truck buyers wanting them. This was from a Ford press release.
The reason manuals are not common and not offered by Ford and GM is emissions, not durability. The newest automatics are great, but nothing will ever beat the durability of a manual transmission.
On another note, the reason Dodge sold so many trucks with manuals was because their automatics were WEAK. So much so that they would derate the load/towing capacity of an automatic equipped truck compared to the manual.
