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Originally Posted by Freeheel4life
Trucks have gotten ridiculous with the "one upping" between torque races, towing races, and wanting to give a Cadillac type experience in the cab it's gone nuts
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It's been said that HP sells cars. Maybe torgue sells diesels? To me, it's a marketing ploy above 800ft/lbs when I'm towing a 16k lb trailer... Maybe you'd care if you towed 32k lbs. But it does allow the manufacturer to advertise "most powerful truck on the market" - and that's what they're going after.
Worth mentioning that dodge, last time I checked, was still selling manual-transmission 6.7L diesel trucks, relatively stripped down and limited to 600 ft/lbs on that manual... Even though it has the same motor as the 800 ft/lb automatic.
Whatever it is, diesel trucks are expensive....