I drove around a hundred mostly highway miles in a new one of these the other day.
While the V-6 might not seem like enough engine for such a large and heavy vehicle, it seemed perfectly adequate and was fairly silent in use. There is no 6.0 thrill when you leg it, but it is capable of merging onto a fast interstate without issue.
The van overall was pretty nice to drive, although ride and tracking seemed not quite as good as the old E350.
This V-6 is apparently a fairly sophisticated design with CVVT (not sure how that works with a single cam pushrod engine), DI and alloy block and heads.
We'll see how well this thing holds up in transport fleet use as compared to the bulletproof 142K six year old E350 it replaced.
I'll bet that if we don't tell the drivers, they'll never know that it's a V-6 and if we do tell them they'll cry to me for as long as we have the vehicle in service that I should've gotten a V-8, although I was not the one who selected this engine.
While the V-6 might not seem like enough engine for such a large and heavy vehicle, it seemed perfectly adequate and was fairly silent in use. There is no 6.0 thrill when you leg it, but it is capable of merging onto a fast interstate without issue.
The van overall was pretty nice to drive, although ride and tracking seemed not quite as good as the old E350.
This V-6 is apparently a fairly sophisticated design with CVVT (not sure how that works with a single cam pushrod engine), DI and alloy block and heads.
We'll see how well this thing holds up in transport fleet use as compared to the bulletproof 142K six year old E350 it replaced.
I'll bet that if we don't tell the drivers, they'll never know that it's a V-6 and if we do tell them they'll cry to me for as long as we have the vehicle in service that I should've gotten a V-8, although I was not the one who selected this engine.