Originally Posted By: whip
Originally Posted By: itguy08
Bringing back the V10? Wow! I figured there would surely be an Ecoboost of some sort under the hood!
Heavy duty trucks are exempt from CAFE, so there's no reason for an ecoboost in one.
No reason? Are you kidding? Diesel like power (flat torque curve, great HP) without the headaches (DPF, emissions, high oil change expense and maintenance, etc).
The Ecoboost would be a great fit in those areas - Ford is already putting them in the new Transit vans so it just seemed to make sense for the Super Duty next.
I imagine if they did offer, say a 4.0 Ecoboost their Diesel take rate would drop to near 0 though. Fleets that have already returned to gas would buy them up, the casual user would, etc.