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Originally Posted by travelin texans
I would strongly disagree with your statement that older ones are the most reliable. I'd bet any of the big 3 newer diesels are much stronger, more powerful & much better equipped than those 10-15 years ago when most were built to be work trucks. Nowadays they can be as well equipped as most any model of luxury car on the market. They don't clatter & rattle while running, they don't stink, they don't belch black smoke with every press of the go pedal, get good fuel mileage & ride fairly decent.
I'm also one of those guys Marshall described! I've towed heavy rvs with gassers & diesels, didn't notice much difference in normal maintenance costs, fuel mileage was better with the diesel especially in hilly areas, that diesel easily chugs uphill with ease while that gasser is screaming trying to keep up speed & if towing any rv of any significant weight or length will never do so with a gasser again.
We used a diesels as a daily driver, short distances & towing, for 15+ years & never any issues with 2 different diesel trucks. In Europe the majority of vehicles, cars & trucks, are diesels.
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I bought my first diesel in 1984 I ordered a F250HD 4x4 with the 6.9L IH and 4 speed manual. Man I was in hog heaven..
and I toyed with driving diesels from Ford and IH over the next few years until '94 when the new style Dodge Ram cam out with the Cummins and... boy was I hooked...
I was towing 10K to 15K equipment trailers all over the country running a crew making Ammonium polyphosphate with a portable pipe reactor and that truck was the best towing truck I'd owned. For the next four years I averaged 100K miles and a new truck every year.. In August of '98 I retired and changed careers again. I sold the diesel and started a vehicle spiral from the Durango to F150, back to an F250 diesel and finally back to the F350 dually.
All that was said to provide my Bona fides.... There is absolutely and I mean absolutely no comparison between the diesel pickups of yesterday and today... Not in longevity, not in power, not in load carrying, and not in fuel mileage.... Today's diesel pickups win every category, hands down.... well except for the Ram Bullwinkle Mirrors... that is just wrong