Propane, CNG/Natural gas

Great review, but the only thing that stood out to me was 400HP from a 5.6L N/A truck V8 being pathetic? The Chrysler 5.7 manages 390HP, the GM 5.3 is 355HP, The Ford 5.0 is 385HP. 400 from 5.6 seems right in the ball park.

That comparison is just as worthless. The 2.0 I4 EB and the VM3.0 are used in very different in size, are in very different applications, and designed to do very different things.

If you build a gasoline engine with huge forged crankshafts, giant steel connecting rods and pistons with longer skirts than an Amish wife - it’ll last forever too. But yes, most diesel engines are generally built better, and hence last longer.

The 7.3 N/A IDI is an utter dog in the hills - the 460 EFI will run circles around them all day, all night. Even 7.3 IDI N/A owners will agree that it’s a complete dog.

The 2.3L EcoBoost has a higher BMEP than the 2.0 VW TDI. It has an even higher BMEP than the 865 lb-ft 6.7L Cummins in the new Rams. Only a few diesel engines come even close to it.

Uh, the Ford 460 EFI produces more torque than the N/A 7.3 IDI at litterally every single RPM point - including at idle. The 460 has a MUCH wider torque band, and it carries it further out into the RPM range.

You should look up what BMEP actully means before you start going around telling people they sound like a fool. Modern turbo gasoline engines have a MUCH higher BMEP than most diesels. Naturally aspirated diesels are anemic slugs, and any run-of-the-mill N/A gasoline engine has MUCH higher BMEP than ANY N/A diesel.…

Yeah I couldn’t hear the engine at all, sorry?

Timing belt drive is quieter, and smoother which is why it was used. 1UZ belts also last 100k+, so not really a big deal.

I’ve driven, and been driven in a variety of Crown Vics, from clapped out to nearly showroom fresh. They’re all bad. They have a lot trunk space, and are decent highway cruisers, but that’s about it.

Nah, That’s the J8 Jeep truck for the Egyptian military

I’d hardly call the 245HP 5.9 Cherokee a “muscle SUV”. It was quick, sure, but the Typhoon was much faster.

Automatics shift faster

Well it’s not like top fuel engines have that “durability” thing either.

Remember truck tailgates have cables that support it when opened. The hinges aren’t under that much stress.

The Carilise Hellcat burnout done by Ralph Gilles

Nah, it really is a pain to load stuff into modern 4x4 pickups. The bedsides are high and the ride heights are high so its hard to reach over and load stuff in. On some its even difficult with the tailgate down.

It’s really the job of the suspension to keep the wheels in contact with the ground. The Ford chassis was almost certainly designed with that flex in mind, so that doesn’t necessarily make the Ram “better”, just different.

I’m guessing it’s not actually emulating anything, and instead they’ve worked with developers to recompile original 360 games into x86 code for the XBox One. Hence the “put in your disc and then download the game”. There’s no way the X Box One has enough power to emulate a 360.