Ram 1500 EcoDiesel sets brisk sales pace
LINK "Ordering for Ram's optional 3.0-liter EcoDiesel V-6 in half-ton pickup trucks started in March and sales seem to be going strong. According to Automotive News, initial orders totaled more tha...
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travelnutz wrote:
A boat has very little wind/air resisitance because it has a conical tapered front surface but an 8' wide by 10' high trailer has immense wind/air resistance. Rolling resistance is the same at 1 mph or 100 mph but wind/air resistance multiplies itself as speed increases.
Want to know how much resistance the wind/air has at speeds? Use a 2' square piece of plywood held up when standing in the back of a pickup going 45 mph or if you have the guts for it at 55 mph. After you get out of the hospital from being blown out of the back of the pickup, you'll get the idea of what bucking the wind/air is like and the difference between a tapered bullet type boat (like an air liner, rocket, or bullet) front and a normal TT is. At 65-70 mph holding the 2' square wood facing forward, it's RIP!
A 2' square piece of plywood has 4 square feet of surface and the 8' X 10' trailer has 80 square feet of frontal surface or 20 TIMES as much as you felt and it's only the vehicle engine that can overcome that increasing resistance if it can! It's the only thing putting twisting force to the drive wheels. Of course, you could drive down the highway with the little engine screaming at 40 mph in second gear. So enjoyable! You'll get the real idea and answer of wind/air resistance is like.
What PerryBoy constantly misleads and doesn't tell you is that even the base 2WD 1377# empty cargo weight rating he'd posted, it doesn't even include a driver, passenger/passengers, hitch and WD bars, anything carried in the truck or any added options like 4WD etc weight increases. More like about 800 lbs max of real usable cargo capacity with only 2 average sized adults. Less than a Honda Ridgeline or a little Toyota Tacoma.
So what, this truck was built for a certain niche. If you aren't in this niche, get over it and move on, Ma Mopar didn't build this truck for you, or me for that matter.
If anyone here thinks someone else is going to put a heavier diesel in one of these things that puts out more power and torque, can carry 800 lbs more, tow 2k more and get the same mileage, dream on. Physics just doesn't work that way.
