Allamakee1 wrote:
Like I said, I have no idea what the Ford 3.0 will do within it's specs, but I do know and everyone else has seen on TFL what the 3.0 has done within its own specs in extreme conditions. If that minute is more valuable to you than whatever money you might save through the ownership of a truck, that is your choice and I for one am happy we have so many choices. This subject just keeps going back to opinion again on what one person thinks vs what someone else might value more.
This has all been about opinion. You keep talking about time and how fuel economy/saving money is more important to you which is your opinion. It is my opinion that my time is more important and I would gladly spend the money for more performance especially when it is such a small insignificant amount to me. I have a feeling that most Americans agree with me since more trucks are sold with the more powerful/less fuel efficient engines than the less powerful/more fuel efficient engines bay a large margin. Why? Because the added cost is worth it to them and any savings they would get is not worth the sacrifice to performance.
This is why these small diesels have ever and will never outsell the more powerful engines options while the cost difference remains so insignificant. Getting 30 mpg in a truck is cool and all, but when you go on a test drive on something that has over 130 less horsepower than you normally drive and put pen to paper to see that it is less that a $50 savings each month then you start to start to see why these trucks don't sell as much as their more powerful and less fuel efficient counterparts. There might be some like you and I in rare scenarios that drive over 80 miles to work and will have greater return, but we are not close to being the norm.
