Originally Posted by Mike Up

Torque gets you going, horsepower keeps you going. With low horsepower and higher torque, you're always playing the catch up game. I know, I drove many diesel trucks over the years pulling all kinds of trailers. F350s, F450s, Ford L8000s, International 4700/4900 series trucks. It's always a race to hills to get the speed up, so you don't slow to much before making it to the top.

Now we were talking about a 3.2L so it would have a very low horsepower, lower than the 2008 Explorer 4.0L V6.

While the 6.7L for a light duty truck puts out gobs of horsepower, it, along with it's competition, are unreliable next to gas engines, with huge repair bills. Not saying they are all unreliable but when you actually go to rv.net and see nothing but diesel repair troubles, it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth. I know our family has seen enough problems with the work trucks.

Maybe if your live out in the country, gas stations may all carry diesel but not in the suburbs.

We tow horses. We done fine in both gas and diesel. But then again when pulling 8 or more horses, it's for the business not personal.

Originally Posted by Mike Up

Torque gets you going, horsepower keeps you going. With low horsepower and higher torque, you're always playing the catch up game. I know, I drove many diesel trucks over the years pulling all kinds of trailers. F350s, F450s, Ford L8000s, International 4700/4900 series trucks. It's always a race to hills to get the speed up, so you don't slow to much before making it to the top.

Now we were talking about a 3.2L so it would have a very low horsepower, lower than the 2008 Explorer 4.0L V6.

While the 6.7L for a light duty truck puts out gobs of horsepower, it, along with it's competition, are unreliable next to gas engines, with huge repair bills. Not saying they are all unreliable but when you actually go to rv.net and see nothing but diesel repair troubles, it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth. I know our family has seen enough problems with the work trucks.

Maybe if your live out in the country, gas stations may all carry diesel but not in the suburbs.

We tow horses. We done fine in both gas and diesel. But then again when pulling 8 or more horses, it's for the business not personal.

Originally Posted by Joewee3.5

The US is slow to accept the Inline engines. The I6 and I5 that Chevy used were nice engines but didn't take off. If there were a way to dpf delete this I5, do injectors, big turbo and tune and it would blow an EB off the road. Yeah it might sound different but all you'd really hear would be a jet engine turbo shooting by.

Originally Posted by hatt

The US has bought 10s of millions of I6 engines. Only problem is I6s don't fit in modern vehicles like v6 or v8. And have the base engine stigma. But that's likely changing since v6 engines are so premium these days. I'd take a nice modern turbo I6 F150.

Originally Posted by ThreeOhTwo

... nice 4-5 liter I6 updated with modern niceties like crossflow heads, a DOHC valvetrain, and the option of a turbo.

Originally Posted by engineermike

Are you familiar with the ford barra i6? It's a dohc 4 liter turbocharged inline 6 manufactured and sold in Australia. How is 416 hp/417 ftlb? I sometimes wonder why the eb was developed from scratch instead of just using the barra. Plus, the barra has been proven durable at power levels much higher than stock.

Originally Posted by TwinTurboFx4

I have driven a transit with the 3.2l power stroke and it's pretty good. The ecoboost is more powerful but the diesel gets a lot better mileage.