any one that really works a truck wont buy a dodge half ton. if they do then yes they are stupid or really mis lead. place I use to work at had some dodges and they where **** at best

 

^I was gonna leave that out of it, just for the sake of cost vs. MPG vs. maintenance, etc. argument, but they are crap too! I'd buy an older manual 5.9 Cummins, but that would be with the expectation that the rest of the truck would be crap.

 

The Hired Hand ‏@ChinookBrew May 24
@Ford_Julien please bring the Ford Ranger back ! #fordranger
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Julien Ford Social ‏@Ford_Julien May 24
@ChinookBrew the new #EcoBoost V6 2.7L will get better fuel economy than a #Ranger

https://twitter.com/Ford_Julien/with_replies

 

Pete Reyes, Chief Engineer for F-150, speaking yesterday during the NEMPA's Technology Conference predicted the 2.7L EcoBoost will outsell the 3.5 and will hit a new sweet spot that was missing before.

 

I'll be curious to see how it drives and what kind of power it has, I'm used to bigger engines, my brothers 5.9L dodge, my dads 460 bronco, I've got the smallest engine at a 4.6L.

You know what they say, a 2 litre is not an engine size, it is a beverage.

 

I like that

 

I found this a few days ago

Ford has not revealed the horsepower or torque specs for this new engine, which was designed from the outset to be equipped with automatic start/stop technology. But I just witnessed this engine on a dynamometer at Ford’s testing centre in Michigan as it ramped up from idle to full throttle and stayed there. It didn’t take long for the twin turbos and exhaust to start glowing red from the heat, but more interesting was the torque figure on the computer in the control room: 345 lb.-ft. from 2,500 to 4,500 rpm, which is right in the sweet spot where power is needed — and more than the current 3.7-litre V6, while only slightly less than the 380 lb.-ft. in the 5.0-litre V8.

 

Yeah but the 5.0 at 2500 rpms probably isn't at 345lb-ft yet...

 

the eco boost is such an unreliable **** box. Ive owned one for 3 years, NEVER AGAIN

https://www.facebook.com/ecoboosts?s...2f4dab77638418

 

Before you go all crazy on us here PM Ashley(I think that's her name sorry) our Ford rep, maybe she can help you out. She has helped many people out on here.

 

Hooray, another overly complicated engine always on the edge of blowing itself apart

I guess if you like disposable trucks, this seems to be the wave of the future

 

That "paint job" is pretty funny.

Thank you for your service!

 

Ashley? SERIOUSLY?? Name some that she's helped out on.

I see her pop up in this forum about once every three months and I know a lot of people that have written her but I've yet to hear of a case that she's helped on. OR that Ford's corporate office has helped on in ANT regard for that matter. I well remember the thread about the guy that was on his THIRD complete replacement Eco-boost engine. She dropped in and asked him to PM her but then she disappeared and AFIK never came back to the thread or responded to him and I KNOW that he never got any help from the Ford factory or corporation. The CLOSEST that Ford came to getting involved was to have the engine computer shipped back to them "for examination" but per usual no one, not even the dealer, ever got any response from Ford about what they found or if they even examined the computer.

But if you KNOW Of cases that she's helped on, please enlighten us. I'd like to hear the details.

 

Ashley is no longer our rep, now it's Nick.

https://www.f150online.com/forums/in...rvice-rep.html

 

Dang didn't see that post. Thanks GLC