transamz9 wrote:
Now you know that it's everyone's goal in life to pull the Ike don't you? LOL
If its a lifelong dream, don't you think they would enjoy a slower ride to have more time to live the experience...?:W
Its funny... it seems the same people that are weight and speed police in some threads are usually the sames arguing that you need the fastest diesel to get to the top of the Ike 3 minutes faster than the slowest gasser. I might drive the Ike once or twice in my life. I might cross the Rockies 3 or 4 times in my life. My little Tundra 5.7 had plenty of power to pull the Appalachian's in eastern US, where I am likely to spend the majority of my time towing.
I own a diesel simply because I stumbled across a lightly used 2015 diesel... in 2015... for less than the gas engine Ford and Ram that I was searching for. I love the exhaust brake for coming down the other side of the mountain, but my father-in-law tows a comparable size RV with his Chevy 2500 6.0 gas engine and he always has enough grunt to keep up with me going up the hills. Neither of us need a diesel for our weights, and I bet more than 50% of diesel owners here don't NEED the diesel.