MotorTrend Tests the 1500's
The article The resident RAM and EcoDiesel haters might not want to read this.
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Hybridhunter wrote:
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"Another way to look at this is with respect to fuel energy (the classic engineering approach) - because a gallon of diesel has 12.5 % more energy than a gallon of gasoline. MPG(gasoline-equivalent) = MPG(diesel) / 1.125
Based on energy, the RWD Dodge Ram 3.0 L with 23 MPG (diesel) combined rating would be equivalent to 20.4 MPG (gasoline-equivalent) combined rating.
The RWD Ford (2.7 L turbo gasoline) with a 22 MPG combined rating is slightly better.
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Ya
How I choose to look at it... I've owned diesel almost continuously since 1981. VW jetta, '83 Audi5000TD, '88 Ford F250 w 7.3 Navistar/IH, '96 passat tdi, '98 jetta tdi, 2002 jetta GLS TDI, 2012 passat tdi se 6 manual, 2012 Touareg sport tdi, 2013 Touareg Sport TDI, 2014 Passat TDI tdi se 6 DSG.
I don't care what it costs new, or what the maintenance costs are, nothing compares to driving the torque of a turbo diesel, I pay gladly for the premium in maintenance to do so. I admire the efficiency of rolling my foot into the throttle slowly and feeling that rubberband acceleration effect to pass, going from 60 to 80 mph. That's what a TDI does so well. To me, it is well worth the premium.
Choose your poison, but don't rag on another for their choices. Their money, they are free to spend it as they choose.
Turbodiesels aren't for everyone... they don't need to be.
