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QuoteReplyTopic: New FORD gas Truck motor 2020 Posted: 20 Sep 2019 at 8:30pm
Ford pickups to add one of world's biggest V8 engines this fall
Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press
Ford’s biggest trucks will get one of the world's biggest V8 engines starting this fall, as one aspect of the Truck Wars turns into an old-fashioned battle of engine size that's reminiscent of the muscle car era.
Exhibit A: A 7.3L gasoline-powered V8 coming to Ford’s Super Duty pickups and commercial vehicles, from ambulances and utility bucket trucks to just a step shy of massive highway semitrucks.
Most of the conversation about big trucks like these – they’re officially called Class 2 through Class 7 vehicles, based on the massive weights they can haul and tow – focuses on diesel engines. But gasoline engines play a role, too, accounting for up to 40% of sales of big Class 2-4 pickups like Ford’s F-250, 350 and 450 Super Duty trucks.
“Diesels are incredibly important for those trucks, but many customers don’t need their full towing capacity,” IHS Markit senior analyst Stephanie Brinley said. “Those customers can get everything they need at a lower cost with a gasoline engine."
In addition to that, many fleet customers only keep trucks this size for three or four years, so diesel’s long-term, high-mileage durability isn’t worth those engines’ higher cost.
The new V8 produces 430 horsepower and 475 pound-feet of torque in Super Duty pickups, slightly less in some of Ford's other commercial trucks.
Tested for reliability, durability
Ford builds the V8 in Windsor, Ontario. It made and tested hundreds of preproduction versions before it was ready to start selling the new V8. That’s expensive – every preproduction engine an automaker builds takes time, parts and money you’ll never be able to use in an engine it sells to a customer – but a sign of how important durability and reliability is to commercial truck owners. A broken truck is a crisis for a small business that can’t make deliveries, or for a hospital without an ambulance.
The 7.3L engine is an upgrade from the gasoline V8 Ford offered before, a 6.2L that produces 385 hp and 430 pound-feet of torque. The 6.2L remains the base engine in the F-250 and 350.
I have a new Ford F250 gas with the 6.2 liter just got back from Michigan fishing with my Dad and averaged just a hair over 14 mpg. have had no problems with it at all. Had diesels before but the cost of the diesel was so prohibitive that I went with gas.
My 2018 Ram 2500 gets 17 mpg and has 410 hp with 430 lb. ft. of torque. When towing trailers it drops to 11 mpg depending on the road and how fast I want to drive. The Hemi does good until you put your foot down on the throttle! Cruise control is my friend! I would buy another one. As for a Diesel ,$10,000 more will buy a lot of gas!
If ford was a reputable company they would have recalled every 6.0 diesel and repaired or replaced them at their expense. They were fully aware of the problems with that motor before they released it to the public. Probably had as many hours testing it as they have on this one. Same with the Firestone tires. THEY demanded Firestone build a tire to their specs. The Firestone engineers told ford the tire would not work the way ford wanted it built. If they were a reputable company they would have owned up to their problem and paid to fix it. They did not.
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