With the new CAFE laws that congress just passed I bet all the automakers will focus more on mileage than horsepower.

 

It's had the dust blown off of it. We're requoting parts for it that were shelved last time.

It may get shelved again, you never know.. but there is activity on it right now.

 

my understanding is that vehicles will be judges by size, not corporate average.

So Dodge cant use the PT Cruiser to offset the Hemi.


At the same time, 3/4 ton and up are exempt so Ford, Dodge and Chev can shove all the 8mpg engines in those trucks as they can.

 

If ford shelves this engine again I will be dodge bound!

 

whatever happened to the rumored diesel?
if even if a small diesel makes 400-450 lbft in an f150, it will turn some good mileage #'s and i'd definitely buy one.

 

I still hear rumors that it's coming.....but who knows

 

I dont know why ford will not put more HP in there cars and trucks

 

I don't know, but imo its taking them down.


I would really like to see a big v8 offered as an option for us guys who want big power. Like I said before, this engine should already be in the F150's.

 

ford doesn't know how to get fuel mileage.

 

I gotta agree with you I am gonna have to sit back and wait for a second or third year model to come out. Buying this one in 04 and I have had a boat load of service done on it to fix alot of annoying little problem that they worked out in the later models.

I definitley will be buying a 6.2 though without a doubt!

 

You are so right! It seems that the only way ford will step up the HP is if they start loosing sales, then they want to do something about it.

They can say what ever they want, dodge took some sales from them last year and thats what got the ball rolling again on this engine.

 

With Federal Law Mandating 27 MPG by 2011, I doubt that the big engines will do Ford any good unless its a diesel.

 

The feds are a bunch of dumb A$$s if they think a full size pick-up will ever get 27 MPG......If it ever happens all trucks will have to have 4 bangers in them and nobody will be able to haul anything.

 

ahh, there are many ways around this. actually the current mpg testing procedures that are on window stickers are from the 70's. the EPA keeps talking bout updating them but never do. i think they're done around 77 km/h on a flat road. who really drives that speed on a highway. heck, maybe they're on a dyno with no wind resistance... who knows.

 

Hopefully Ford designs the Hurricane engine so you can get the plugs out of them when you need to.....