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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. |
Very Well Said! My brother and I would take turns driving to the deer lease and his 6.0 would downshift and scream when we came to a hill! My Cummins would not change RPM's and you could hear the Turbo doing it's thing! He went and got him a diesel now and that knucklehead got him a Chevy!
( no offense to the Chevy diesel guys) j/k