Gas or Diesel
My Son is looking to get a 2015 Ford F-350 CC SB. He's trying to decide between the 6.2 gas or pay extra for the 6.7 diesel. He currently has a 6.0 diesel so he knows how the diesel pulls. ...
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Sport45 wrote:
I think most diesel owners are more in love with the turbocharger than the fuel. They just don't realize it.
You hit the proverbial nail on it's proverbial head with that keen observation. I've stated in post after post that it's blatantly not right to compare TC diesels to non-TC gassers. The problem is ... there's no TC gasser truck engines available to speak of that are worth their salt. It probably isn't going to happen either - the opposite is happening - vehicle manufacturers are close to fully Europeanizing the U.S. market by inundating us with little tiny turbo charged diesels in everything. Lawn mowers and Harley motorcycles are next after the conversion to diesel delivery trucks, diesel small motorhomes, and diesel socker-mom-mobiles is complete.
My brother said a very honest thing about his older 4X4 NA diesel pickup - his words about the truck were something akin to "gutless wonder".
Now ... if Ford would offer a turbo charged V10 ... then we'd begin to see the switch from diesels by the towing crowd back to smooth running cheap to maintain easy to find gas for gasser engines. The V10 gasser is already engineered to have a broad relatively flat torque curve for truck use. All it needs to complete the picture is a turbo for mountain use.
