RAM EcoDiesel a Flop for Towing

wilber1 wrote:


I said, why do you have to go up the hill at 50 MPH. How do you get having to go up the hill at WOT out of that? 240 HP seems to be the limit for the V6 3.0L diesels in North America, be they VW, Mercedes or Motori, I assume because of emission standards. BMW does a bit better at 255 HP. This is not true in Europe where Audi offers a 313 HP twin turbo version of their 3.0 and next year a triple turbo version putting out 353 HP. I think these engines are very underrated for North America.

Uhm no! Europe uses a different SAE standard to determine their power output of their engines which is why the outputs for the engines over there is higher. Also, even if you went up the hill at 40 or 30 mph, the Ecodiesel would have still been struggling more than the 2.7L Ecoboost. Either way you want to put it, that Ecodiesel should have been rated to tow less than that Ecoboost no if, ands or buts.

Two words for you. Boost Pressure. To make the same amount of power, you have to mix the same amount of fuel and air and burn it. A smaller displacement engine will have to either turn faster or operate at a higher manifold pressure to process the same amount of fuel and air in the same amount of time as a larger displacement engine.

Two words for you.... No and no.

So what? Most gasoline is E10 which doesn't change the fact that diesels do better in the real world. All vehicles get worse mileage in cold weather, doesn't matter if they are gas or diesel. Never seen #1 diesel on the west coast.

Really? So Northern California, Washington, or Oregon never has #1 diesel? So you are really telling me that the few refineries we have switch over to making #1 diesel fuel for the whole United States, but make an acception for California, Oregon, and Washington? Do pigs also fly where you come from?