Nissan Titan with a diesel!!!

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

Bionic Man wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
241HP 550FT/TQ so it's making the same TQ with lower HP. can't wait to so these two on the road.

Don

Come on over and drive my 6.5 diesel with a TT on the back. It has a little bit more torque and a little less HP then the "Eyetallian Cummins." It will feel almost exactly like this new Ram.

Power aside, the RAM will have twice the gears as your 6.5 and likely be quite a bit lighter. Not really an accurate comparison.

Gears does not make trucks any faster towing up a hill. Well, not appreciably any faster anyway. The only way to fix that is with HP. Put 8 or 9K of TT on the tail of that 1/2 ton and see what happens going up Eisenhower Tunnel.

I said it once and I will say it again; the EB is going to waste this thing in a towing test. And that will end the love affair to this thing with most people. Over a 125 more HP. It's not even going to be close.

So, your saying that having more gears which would allow the engine to spend significantly more time in the powerbad would not result in the ability to maintain higher speed up grades? I disagree.

I do agree if you are looking for a drag race up Eisenhower (a pass I pull several times per month in the summer) that the EB will win. I also contend that the diesel will return SIGNIFICANTLY higher MPG, both towing and solo.

We shall see what is more important to the consumer. My guess is that there will be plenty of people that want the MPG. My guess is also that Ford will sell more EB trucks than RAM will sell 1500 diesels. But that does not make the diesel a failure.