I don't know if this is old news or not, but I saw this in an article about all the unfortunate layoffs and plants closings that Ford is doing.

Maybe the new F-150 will have a diesel in it. My fingers are crossed anyway!

http://www.wral.com/automotive/9856333/detail.html

 

It will be a 2009 vehicle launched during the latter part of 2008. From what I have read anyway.

 

I don't understand why people want a diesel in the F150. Isn't that why Ford has the SuperDuty?

 

Definitely a diesel and a "high performance" gas engine.

 

Some of us have a love for diesel engines. I don't need the capabilities of a Superduty. The F-150 meets my needs. A diesel engine is also much more efficient than a gasoline engine. If every vehicle in the US was currently running off of diesel fuel we would not have to import a single drop of oil.

 

99% of the taxis in Germany are diesel for a reason!

 

I would like to get an F-150 with a diesel, too. The major downside I can see is that a disel would raise the price of the truck considerably. Right now it costs an extra $5k to get a diesel SD. Hopefully Ford won't charge that much for the smaller diesel that's planned to be put in the F-150's.

 

Fuel economy is the big reason. My parents have a 06 VW Jetta TDI (turbo diesel) I just took that on a little road trip to help my girlfriends sister move into college. And the little VW got 48.9mpg, this was 95% highway driving. And my mom said that she gets usually around 43-44mpg just driving back and forth to work, where my girlfriend gets 28-30mpg driving my Focus. If Ford does put an diesel in the F150 I am guessing that it should get somewhere in the 22-25 mpg range, this is just a guess but heck my old man was getting 19-20 running empty on long highway trips with a 99 F350 4X4 SC, dually, 7.3L PSD/6spd.

As for price, with the VW the window sticker said that the TDI was only like a $500 or $700 option, unlike the $5000+ that you have to shell out for a PSD, Cummins, or Duramax.

 

jre86: Hey man, you from Raleigh or just come across www.wral.com by chance?

 

im wondering if we will see a new lightning in 2008 or 2009

 

Here's a thread in the GD forum that answers questions about the new F-150's..right from the horse's mouth

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=253966

 

The below is what I saw on CNN Money about the F150

Ford promised Friday that the new redesign of the F-150 pickup, still the nation's best-selling vehicle model, will be unlike anything else seen in the market when it hits showrooms in late 2008.

 

i would like the option of a diesel too, but where did you come up with that last statement?

 

I am an engineering student at NCSU. WRAL is just where I check for all the local news.

I have heard this multiple times from professors and from articles written about how dependent we are on foreign oil.

My dad's F-250 4x4 Crew Cab with the 7.3L averages over 16 mpg in a much heavier truck. This average includes towing. I can barely get 15 mpg in my F-150 driving like a grandma. Diesel is just that much more efficient than gasoline.

 

If a turbo diesel in the f150 comes out in 08... Ill bet stocking my f150 out and trading it in...

600+rwhp and 1000rwtq with bolt ons and tune? Yes sir