******** @ annual mileage... It can easily take hundreds of thousands of miles for a diesel to reach a break even point ... And that can be increased exponentially by one out of warranty repair. The 8-9k upcharge for the diesel can take over a decade to balance out.
Clearly you have either never owned a full size diesel, or if you did you never tracked the operating cost. I can tell you for an absolute fact that any savings in fuel economy is more than offset by every other increased cost.
Here is a fun game: compare the price of an oil change for a 2019 6.2 gas and a 2019 6.7 powerstroke. (Every third oil change will cost more because you have to change the fuel filters on the 6.7)
Now take the price difference and see how long your 25-40% increased fuel economy will take to make up that difference. Suddenly a diesel makes less sense.
You are correct. Although you may have missed my point about the price similarity between a new, well optioned F150 gasser & lightly used Diesels.
If you need to change the narrative and add “$8-9k” to initial cost of diesel in order to validate your absolute facts and figures, well i can’t contest that. Its your reality, who am I to convince you otherwise?
I’ve never known a diesel truck owner with regrets. Many people spend nearly $60k on a 1/2 ton gasser, then loose their shirt on a trade when they realize they want/need a bigger truck to tow that boat or RV they want - regardless of what a Ford’s 1/2 Ton tow & payload numbers suggest.
If your point is you can't do big international tours with gas, these folks would disagree:
The moral of that story is that their diesel was efficient enough to offer range that gasoline could not match. They would not physically be able to carry enough gas on their Troop Carrier to achieve that range because of payload and space constraints. They didn’t carry jerry cans, because they had two large tanks.
Technically neither gas nor diesel is required for international travel... You can travel on a bicycle dude. An internal combustion engine would improve long distance travel efficiency in some regards, right? Okay, now enter diesel fuel, which is more efficient in some regards than gasoline, right?
I didn’t realize that the efficiency of diesels was such a difficult concept for people to grasp. Yikes. Its okay to prefer gasoline. We enjoy inordinately low prices in America. Most other places its $7/gallon or more.
I sure wouldn’t complain if Toyota brought over their twin turbo V8 diesel and put into the new Tundra. Ford Rapter killer maybe? ??
