Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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Hannibal wrote:Hudson69 wrote:
Small displacement economic diesel engines are nice, but the automakers only sell hot rodded diesels that guzzle fuel.
It's ridiculous to put a 6 cylinder engine that came out of a 25,000+ gvwr into a pickup.
That's why that's all they make. That's all they sell.
The 5.9L and 6.7L Cummins will very rarely be seen in a 25k lb GVWR truck. Links to examples would be great! As well, the 930 lb Dodge Ram CPL Cummins is about 200 lbs lighter than the 1100 lbs commercial truck application Cummins. It's not the same engine.
https://www.fleet.ford.com/showroom/2009fleetshowroom/2009-F750.asp
