Would love to hear from anyone who owns one. I haven't driven one, but I think Ford would be making a mistake to discontinue it.
https://www.torquenews.com/9539/ford...neration-f-150

 

I would be worried that using aluminum heads on the diesel would cause blown head gaskets with the high compression of the diesels. People expect a diesel to last, as well as provide better fuel economy and not have to replace head gaskets every 100k miles. I understand that Chevy's new 3 L diesel has the timing chains on the rear of the engine necessitating pulling the engine to replace the timing chains. 150k miles design life.

 

They're just too damn expensive! If they shared some of the cost across all engine packages, they'd sell a lot more. Something like the destination charges, not to that extent, but offset a bit of it.

I'd love to have one, but could never make the math work.

 

To Expensive, and it makes less power and torque then an EB motor....not worth the Fuel Efficiency gain for a baby diesel IMO....it was a motor released and no market for it in the U.S.


In the 3/4,1 Ton world towing when the thing put out 1,000 Ft/Lbs of torque it makes all the sense in the world....in the small configuration i would take a 3.5 EB with the 10 Speed +3.73's all day.