It is amazing what the technology has done over the years. A diesel getting that kind of mileage. But then look at the mileage the Mustang is now getting compared to the 1970's cars.
Had my 2016 4x4 Big Horn EcoDiesel for 6 months now...two trips of 2000 miles I got 28mpg with about 1000lbs in the bed...other trip I got 29mpg unloaded. Average speed was 65mph. Over 700 miles on a tank...you better have a BIG bladder! Love the truck...I see Ford is now going to play copycat with a 3.0liter diesel from Land Rover...with the pop can body I bet it will get 30mpg in 4x2 set up.
I regularly get anywhere from 26 to 29 mpg's with my 2014 ecodiesel and nobody believes me until I show them. then they usually say yeah but it's a dodge. I just say don't go drive one, cause you might be pulling up with one.
I have a crew cabin ecodiesel 2015 bighorn. I get about 28 MPG on freeway without any additive with empty load. Another upside of ecodiesel vs. hemi is the awesome performance on elevation due to the turbo charge. I zip past those gas cars like nothing!
aj06bolt12r The fact is that Ford is coming out with a half ton diesel in 2017. The Ecoboost is no doubt faster, but when you do hills you are putting a lot of stress on the engine which would have to run at much higher RPM to compensate. You would also be burning a lot more gas and I bet your EcoBoost mpg would drop to the low teens. Ford knows this and and therefore they are finally admitting that a F-150 diesel makes sense.
The Ecoboost makes 420 ftlbs at 2500rpm and holds well over 300ftlbs almost to idle. None of this much higher RPM compensation of which you speak would be taking place. They are both turbocharged so the altitude is a wash. The ecoboost would use more fuel yes. But we were not talking about fuel economy. We were talking about an ecoboost not being able to keep up with an ecodiesel. Which is just simply a joke. An ecoboost will quite simply destroy an ecodiesel in any performance test, trailer or not, altitude or not. Not by a little, by a lot. Ecodiesel is slow as hell.
aj06bolt12r I don't know where you get the numbers from, but Ford's official website list the 2.7L EcoBoost torque at 375@3000rpm and the 3.5L EcoBoost torque at 470@3500rpm. I admit that the EcoBoost is going to be faster if it is turbo charged, but I'd take the EcoDiesel any day for its efficiency and longevity.
I'm intrigued with this truck. If you can beg, borrow or steal a tuning chip out of some reputable supplier would you consider running it for a month or two and see what happens? Only things I need convincing of is fuel payback and price of the truck. Not cheap for either here in Alberta.
+Dan Schafer In Europe you can get a chip for the Jeep Cherokee 3.0 V6 CRD which is the same Italian engine, so the Common Rail plug should be exactly the same, costs about $150.
Heck my 5.9 cummins '06 has gotten up to 29.6 mpg in the Ram 2500 in a hauling 2 adults and a tank full of fuel the vehicle must weigh over 9400 lbs. These 1500's with newer engines and more technology should eventually get near 50 mpg!
+OdinX316 I agree! The technology is there for any vehicle manufactured today to get well over 30 mpg. I know some people that work in the oil industry. Years ago big oil hired many engineers to design and build engines that got 50 plus mpg, both diesel and gas. The oil companies patented their finding. My point is big oil owns the technology that auto manufactures need for their vehicles to get higher mpg's. Its all about the money of course.
Great Videos! Love the idea of a smaller diesel engine... but... now the titan has the REAL diesel! powered by a v-8 Cummins! what is your take on the two? Why since Dodge Ram all these years has run with Cummins drops em rite before the mini- behemoth 5 liter? Really peavs Cummins fans. Makes Italians happy im sure.
+Ram EcoDiesel Source Curious how the truck accelerates, given that it gets 30+/- MPG? I saw a beautiful 6" lifted truck, but when I asked the guy what was under the hood, I didn't know it was a turbo 6 (I assumed it was a V8 diesel). Thanks.
Nice, but factoring in the very high initial cost of the vehicle, coupled with the growing pains of the new engine, and it's simply not affordable nor makes economic sense to own. Ford Eco-Boost or just enjoy the low cost of gas. Diesel won't make it here in the States unless the auto industry gets real on diesel emissions and stops trying to make them act like gas engines.
in canada gas is still very costly, around 4 bucks a gallon and the truck is only about 3-4k more then the 2.7liter ecoboost and about the same as the more powerful ecoboost, it's quite good if u are doing highway towing or small payload highway driving
It is amazing what the technology has done over the years. A diesel getting that kind of mileage. But then look at the mileage the Mustang is now getting compared to the 1970's cars.
+jdmeaux There are diesel motors that are getting well over 50 mpg. Sadly the motors are not allowed into the U.S.
jdmeaux mustangs still get the same lol
Had my 2016 4x4 Big Horn EcoDiesel for 6 months now...two trips of 2000 miles I got 28mpg with about 1000lbs in the bed...other trip I got 29mpg unloaded. Average speed was 65mph. Over 700 miles on a tank...you better have a BIG bladder! Love the truck...I see Ford is now going to play copycat with a 3.0liter diesel from Land Rover...with the pop can body I bet it will get 30mpg in 4x2 set up.
I've gotten almost 900 miles on a tank a couple times on my 17 with 3:92's. Even now in mid November in Maine 29 mpg.
Remember it's not broken in yet and colder temperatures and winter fuel. Will only get better.
That's what I am hoping
+V10PDTDI Colder temperatures and winter fuel helps with Diesel engines? It's the opposite of gas?
I regularly get anywhere from 26 to 29 mpg's with my 2014 ecodiesel and nobody believes me until I show them. then they usually say yeah but it's a dodge. I just say don't go drive one, cause you might be pulling up with one.
Same here. I get 28 on the highway but my wife took it to Virginia and the truck said 32 mpg. I am the leadfoot in the family I guess.
If you get the GDE tune, it gets even better. I get 31-34 mpg summer, but winter driving drops it to 26-29 mpgs.
That is pretty damn good👍🏻
I have a crew cabin ecodiesel 2015 bighorn. I get about 28 MPG on freeway without any additive with empty load.
Another upside of ecodiesel vs. hemi is the awesome performance on elevation due to the turbo charge. I zip past those gas cars like nothing!
+conworldus Yeah nothing could keep up when I was going through the hills of Pennsylvania.
Bet an ecoboost could keep up!
aj06bolt12r The fact is that Ford is coming out with a half ton diesel in 2017. The Ecoboost is no doubt faster, but when you do hills you are putting a lot of stress on the engine which would have to run at much higher RPM to compensate. You would also be burning a lot more gas and I bet your EcoBoost mpg would drop to the low teens. Ford knows this and and therefore they are finally admitting that a F-150 diesel makes sense.
The Ecoboost makes 420 ftlbs at 2500rpm and holds well over 300ftlbs almost to idle. None of this much higher RPM compensation of which you speak would be taking place. They are both turbocharged so the altitude is a wash. The ecoboost would use more fuel yes. But we were not talking about fuel economy. We were talking about an ecoboost not being able to keep up with an ecodiesel. Which is just simply a joke. An ecoboost will quite simply destroy an ecodiesel in any performance test, trailer or not, altitude or not. Not by a little, by a lot. Ecodiesel is slow as hell.
aj06bolt12r I don't know where you get the numbers from, but Ford's official website list the 2.7L EcoBoost torque at 375@3000rpm and the 3.5L EcoBoost torque at 470@3500rpm. I admit that the EcoBoost is going to be faster if it is turbo charged, but I'd take the EcoDiesel any day for its efficiency and longevity.
I'm intrigued with this truck. If you can beg, borrow or steal a tuning chip out of some reputable supplier would you consider running it for a month or two and see what happens?
Only things I need convincing of is fuel payback and price of the truck. Not cheap for either here in Alberta.
Dan Schafer I would definitely try a tuning chip but no one makes one that I know of.
Really? I'm sure something will pop up due to response of market
+Dan Schafer In Europe you can get a chip for the Jeep Cherokee 3.0 V6 CRD which is the same Italian engine, so the Common Rail plug should be exactly the same, costs about $150.
2WD or 4WD? Axle Ratio? Reg/Double/Crew? 6'4" bed?
Info needed to put MPH in prespective
Nice 👍
After the update mine gets 21 to 23 combined.
Heck my 5.9 cummins '06 has gotten up to 29.6 mpg in the Ram 2500 in a hauling 2 adults and a tank full of fuel the vehicle must weigh over 9400 lbs. These 1500's with newer engines and more technology should eventually get near 50 mpg!
+OdinX316 I agree! The technology is there for any vehicle manufactured today to get well over 30 mpg. I know some people that work in the oil industry. Years ago big oil hired many engineers to design and build engines that got 50 plus mpg, both diesel and gas. The oil companies patented their finding. My point is big oil owns the technology that auto manufactures need for their vehicles to get higher mpg's. Its all about the money of course.
Great Videos! Love the idea of a smaller diesel engine... but... now the titan has the REAL diesel! powered by a v-8 Cummins! what is your take on the two? Why since Dodge Ram all these years has run with Cummins drops em rite before the mini- behemoth 5 liter?
Really peavs Cummins fans.
Makes Italians happy im sure.
Chrysler did not use the cummins because it is not as efficent as the ecodiesel
This had to have been before the recall
I own a 2016 Laremie. At 70-75 i get 30-31+ anything faster than 75 I get 28-29mpg.
OMG THATS AWESOME, WHAT FEATURE THEY USED ? THEY NEED THAT IN OTHER SUV.
+shane premraj Jeep Grand Cherokee Ecodiesel 3.0 same engine
thanks for the video! What kind of mpg do you get if you just use cruise controll on the highway at like 65 or 70 mph? Thanks.
Holy shit 369 range mi, I know what truck I'm getting
How much did you pay for the truck?
Too much only ones available in diesel were fully loaded versions.
Ram EcoDiesel Source Ha Ha. Aint that the truth.
+Ram EcoDiesel Source Curious how the truck accelerates, given that it gets 30+/- MPG? I saw a beautiful 6" lifted truck, but when I asked the guy what was under the hood, I didn't know it was a turbo 6 (I assumed it was a V8 diesel). Thanks.
in another video he said $55k
+Alex Parkes ouch I thought thirty was a lot for my f150. Now that I find out the cam gears are spinning on the diesel I'm glad I went with the v6
Is this with crew cab? 4x4?
+Jerry Charles yes
Nice, but factoring in the very high initial cost of the vehicle, coupled with the growing pains of the new engine, and it's simply not affordable nor makes economic sense to own. Ford Eco-Boost or just enjoy the low cost of gas. Diesel won't make it here in the States unless the auto industry gets real on diesel emissions and stops trying to make them act like gas engines.
in canada gas is still very costly, around 4 bucks a gallon and the truck is only about 3-4k more then the 2.7liter ecoboost and about the same as the more powerful ecoboost, it's quite good if u are doing highway towing or small payload highway driving
I’ve never get 25 mpg on highway
Is there any maintenance I need to do
Or any change I need to make ?