[The Blue Ox]

Originally Posted by 05stram

Those same vehicles around here in the mountains are still able to maintain close to that - amazing what a small torque driven engine will do these days

I can totally believe that!! My 6.7 cummins got the best mileage ever in the mountainous areas of N Cali, and Oregon! Over 25 mpg with bed loaded down!

Originally Posted by fielderLS3

...but without the ignition/coil problems of the Ecoboost.

Diesel is not about horsepower, it is about a seemingly bottomless well of low RPM torque. If you've spent any amount of time driving a diesel, you'd understand. My mother and father both have VW TDI's, one of which we all drove on a vacation out West last summer. That little 2-liter diesel will chug

along in high gear up hills that would force an LS3, 5.0, or Hemi to drop a gear or even two.




I'd take the torque/power delivery characteristics of those "only" 140hp diesels over the closer to 300hp, but high revving V6s any day. They never get bogged down. Only having to stop to fill a smallish 14 gallon tank 8 times in 11 full days of driving is just the icing on the cake.