MotorTrend Tests the 1500's
The article The resident RAM and EcoDiesel haters might not want to read this.
Forum Discussion
ib516 wrote:
Ya, every tester I've seen (video and text) has raved about the 2.7L EcoBoost's power.
You can make power with anything... but it's going to cost you in fuel consumption. A diesel, by virtue of fuel and compression ratio and other volumetric efficiendies, will almost always see 30-35% better mpg's that an equivalent gas engine. The fuel alone has 20+% more calories per gallon than gas.
In identical 2013 Touaregs, one gas, the other diesel, I saw 26 MPG in the gas model, 33 in the Diesel. YMMV, I drove them identically.
I'll take the diesel, every single time. You get hit in a diesel, it's rare that a fuel leak in going to cause you and your vehicle to burn to a crisp.
