Ford F150 is going Powerstroke Diesel

troubledwaters wrote:
If I take that $8,000.00 purchase price difference and invest it and get 4% per year, after 5 years I make up that $1200.00 difference plus another $500. Anything above 4% is an extra added bonus. My 10 year Average Annualized Return is currently 7.48%, and you don't even want to hear what my 5 year AAR is.

You said "IF", but is that what you or most HD gas truck owners do? Let's talk real world here and not "IF's".

IF you want to start getting into "IF's". Then I can go into the IF of dropping the fuel cost difference to $.25 for half the year(since that is what it does according to the DoE) which would drop the fuel cost for the diesel over 100k to $18,000. This would drop the total cost to $37,000 which puts it at $4,000 ahead. I can also get into the "IF's" of towing mileage since that is what these HD trucks are used for.

Heck, even if the diesel was $2,000 more over the course of 5 years, I pretty sure most diesel owners would gladly pay an additional $400 a year for that added towing performance.