Ram Eco-Diesel vs F150 2.7 TT - Davis Dam

The gasser folks are HP nuts, it suits their cause, the diesel folks are torque nuts. While the torque figure of ft lbs in itself is somewhat meaningless, when you want real work to get done, with current technology and fuel prices... the prize goes to diesel. Boats, cruise ships, over the road hauling, towing, anything heavy, turbo diesel and the torque numbers, while high and HP figures, while low, seem to be the day in and day out choice to get the heavy work done by industry and private party. In city traffic and off the line, I noticed it right away from my first stop at a red light when I test drove a 1600cc 1981 Jetta diesel coupe, compared to my 1600cc 1967 Beetle with sunroof. The motor pulled much harder, off of idle, than any gasser. It was that feature that sold me on diesel... well that and going from 27 MPG to 48 to 53 MPG... I halved my fuel expenses per week.