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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Here's my .02 worth. My personal tow vehicle is a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado, CC, 4x4 Dooley with the 8.1/Allison. My 5er weighs in at 13,000lbs. I get a consistent 7.5mpg no matter what I do. It's a bigblock gas engine and I expect the mpg as it is. No complaints.
I run a fleet of over 350 different vehicles. My company vehicle is a 2008 Ford Super Duty CC, 4x4 Dooley, 6.4 diesel, loaded. Nice truck, as I happen to like both Ford and GM products, so I'm not biased here. From time to time I pull a 9000lb trailer with this Ford and it gets 8.4mpg no matter how I drive it.
A close friend of mine has a 2005 Silverado Dmax/Allison and he does no better than 9mpg while towing his toy hauler.
I will say, my bigblock gas engine "drags" the trailer as the diesel "pulls" the trailer, up hill. The diesel has more torque as we all know. But, for the money spent, It would take years for me to recoup the extra $$ laid out for the diesel as the MPG are very close versus the price of diesel vs. gasoline.
FWIW, I will drive the guts out of what's under my right foot. If Ford or GM did not want the accelerator pedal to go to the floor, it wouldn't have been designed that way. ;)
I run a fleet of over 350 different vehicles. My company vehicle is a 2008 Ford Super Duty CC, 4x4 Dooley, 6.4 diesel, loaded. Nice truck, as I happen to like both Ford and GM products, so I'm not biased here. From time to time I pull a 9000lb trailer with this Ford and it gets 8.4mpg no matter how I drive it.
A close friend of mine has a 2005 Silverado Dmax/Allison and he does no better than 9mpg while towing his toy hauler.
I will say, my bigblock gas engine "drags" the trailer as the diesel "pulls" the trailer, up hill. The diesel has more torque as we all know. But, for the money spent, It would take years for me to recoup the extra $$ laid out for the diesel as the MPG are very close versus the price of diesel vs. gasoline.
FWIW, I will drive the guts out of what's under my right foot. If Ford or GM did not want the accelerator pedal to go to the floor, it wouldn't have been designed that way. ;)
