The smaller engine has to provide as much mechanical energy as the bigger engine to move one of these behemoths down the road, so there's not a lot to gain by reducing engine displacement.

 

Didnt take that into account, I withdraw my objection based on your careful explanation and superior experience

info on the interweb puts the 6 at
18/26
and the 5.9 at
16/22
But those are probably lies propagated by chrysler to sell more trucks

 

I never believe EPA ratings.......

 

Niether do I, my mental faculties werent at their best (had quite a few) when I posted the objection I had. Didnt think that since the body, frame ect. arent scaled down, the v6 has to move almost the same weight as the 8. Thus, it has to idle higher, and be revved into a higher rpm range to do the same work. Which equals increased fuel consumption


Edit: I remember reading somewhere that the epa is cracking down on this form of false advertisment (bumping the mpgs). They are in the works of a more standardized battery of tests that focus on driving style as it pertains to the real world (not the in-lab tests they do today). Perhaps in the next few years the epa rating will actually reflect what happens out here in reality..... That would mean the government actually did something right though, so hell might freeze first

 

A new dimension of "beer goggles"?

 

LOL, if you only knew. Woke up this morning feeling like morpheus just gave me the blue pill (or was it the red one?)

 

You'd never remember the blue pill, so you must be thinking of the red one.

I've freakin' love to get 16/22 MPG out of my old truck.

 

I would litteraly cry if I saw a 5.9 get anything over 20mpgs... I could be going down a 100 mile long hill, place my truck in neutral and let it coast down the damn thing for the duration of it and it still wouldnt pull 20mpgs..

 

LOL Mine would run out of gas on the trip up the 100 mile hill

 

wow thanks for the replys, havent been on lately.

but so i should test out a v8 before the v6 to compare?
well the thing is here in Oklahoma for some reason i cant find a decent truck for my price range, which is very low because im a 18yr that pays for everything.

so the v6 wouldnt get much better mpg than the v8? so why did they even make it??