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Originally Posted by PopBeavers
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My brother has a Chevy 2500HD diesel with the larger transmission. He is retired and does a lot of traveling, 7+months per year on the road. His 5th wheel trailer weighs around 12k pounds loaded. I think diesel is very appropriate in his situation, especially towing over the Sierra's and Rocky's.
As I am currently configured, I am probably in the overkill category already. I don't see any value in yet more overkill. Unless I start taking more stuff with me.
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Ah well, the traditional diesel in a N.A. pickup is a V8 monster.
But smaller diesels do exist, and this V6 3L that Fiat/Chrysler/Jeep is bringing over from Europe will be a more appropriate size. But the price ... ?
Our 2005 VW Passat (now with our daughter @ 150,000 mi) had a 2L I4 TDI (turbo direct injection) diesel. We hauled our ~2500# pop-up all over N.A. with it. Wonderful car, lots of low-end torque.
Correctly sized diesels really do make fantastic towing motors, if only they can keep the price down. I'm sure we'll be seeing more of them. They exist already everywhere else but N.A.