2018 F-150 3.0L Diesel GCWR

ShinerBock wrote:
I never understood the diesel "payback" in fuel savings that seems to get brought up. You usually tend to get your "payback" with a diesel in trad-in/resale value or longevity, not in fuel mileage (unless you are towing a lot). I can see this argument if a diesel had the same resale/trade-in value as its gas equivalent, but in almost all cases it holds a much higher value. Basically it costs more, but you can also sell it for more just like you can with any other option on a vehicle like trim levels, 4wd, and Nav systems.

Not sure how they price these small diesels but for the 3/4 & 1 ton big diesels, it's really about the ability to tow big loads. At some point as the trailers get bigger, it just makes sense to get the extra power.

It used to be you saved a lot on fuel back when diesel was 10-20% lower price per gallon and got 20-40% more MPG. If you drove a lot of miles it would save you enough in fuel to cover the cost to upgrade to diesel. Now diesel is the same or higher price per gallon and the MPG edge isn't as great ironically due to emissions controls.

Resale value: I've been keeping an eye on the used market as I'm looking at picking up a 2007-2010 in the next year or two. I'm not seeing much of a difference for similarly equipped and condition F250/350 with a V10 vs diesel. If you drop down to the base V8 in F350 dually, yeah it will show up much lower because if you are getting a combination that makes no sense. With that big of a truck, everyone looking is towing heavy but in the F250 or SRW F350, just not a lot of difference.