The best Truck for a Host Mammouth

Grit dog wrote:
Anyone find it ironic that our resident European, guessing Eastern, is lecturing the virtues of how Europeans are such careful, calculated and miserly shoppers in a thread where a European dude (guessing by the grammar and spelling) is trying to impulse buy a camper and a truck?

I think you've got it all wrong.
The OP is not buying truck on impulse, but just becouse he has limited time for his vacations and being new in this country - he has lot of homework to do.
And he is doing it.
If my experience how I got perfect truck is a lecture to you, I think you have another problem.
Coming to diesel/gasoline choice - diesel in most of European countries is way cheaper than gasoline, so each European want a diesel in everything. That becomes mentality and even sometimes gasoline option might be valid, mentality can prevail.