Stick with me, and you might learn a few things.
One, the Cummins Engine Co. is listed by the Anti-Gun Coalition as one of its top supporters. So you idiots in Cummins can $%#^ a cow, you're worthless to me.
Also a few quotes from Truck World.
"So when I pulled out and blew past a new Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 diesel towing the exact 7,500-pound trailer that was hooked to the hitch of the equally new HD Chevrolet Silverado I was driving, I felt pretty good. After all, I've come to love GM's Duramax Diesel/Allison automatic combination and know the Cummins diesel isn't much of a match when the hills steepen and the gears deepen.
My glee was short lived; a few minutes later I was on the short-end of the passing game when a 2003 Ford F-250 put me in my place. Not only did the driver pass me on an even steeper grade, he did so after pulling up along side, waving bye-bye, and then proceeded to accelerate away as if I were parked.
The Ford that so adeptly put down the Duramax-powered Chevy Silverado was powered by the new monster of tow-the 32-valve, 6.0-liter Power Stroke V8 diesel. It pumps out a stump-leveling 560 pound-feet of torque at 2,000rpm and 325 horsepower at 3,300rpm. Numbers that raise the performance bar considerably above the current 7.3-liter Power Stroke found in the current pickups and of the gas and diesel engines found in both Dodge and GM pickups."
Now for a test, with a 12,000 lbs trailor.
"We drove as near-identically equipped Ford, Chevrolet and Dodge crewcab pickups as is available with their respective diesels backed with automatics. The standing start 1/4-mile run was never a contest-Ford won by more than 400 feet over the Dodge/Cummins combo and 100 feet over the Chevrolet/Duramax package. (The high-output Cummins was not available, but by comparing raw torque and horsepower numbers the results would have been nearly the same.)
There is no better way of explaining the instant tip-in throttle response and strong pulling power exhibited by the 6.0L Power Stroke other than phenomenal. There's no lag, no waiting for the power to build on roll-out. It's just there as was evidenced by spinning the duallies for some 50-feet when we pulled a drag-style powerbrake launch. (Mind you this is with 12,000-pounds of trailer in tow.)"
And a hill climb with a 12,000 lbs trailor
"Much the same results were found pulling long highway grades of the six-percent variety. Where the Dodge strained to keep 40mph and the Chevy 50, the Ford Super Duty Crew Cab pushed 60-plus.
Another surprise was quietness. Where the Duramax was uncomfortably loud in the cab from engine and fan noise under the hard pulls, and the Cummins rattling at the demand, the Power Stroke was remarkably quiet. Another tribute to stringent engineering demands placed on the Blue Oval Boys when developing the 2003 Super Duty package."
Anyone who says that Dodge or GM have a better diesel, are ignorant of the facts, and relying on either emotion or outdated material.
And for gas engines, the F-150 is the number one selling vehicle of all time, and has been the number one selling truck every year since 1976.
You anti-Ford people are just like the French, you want to be different, so you disagree with everything and try and talk yourselves in circles. While in a way putting your fingers in your ears, and yelling LA-LA-LA-LA.
A Dodge owner once said to me, "Do you base everything on facts." I just smiled and turned away. He never understood the irony.
Enough said, I'm sure I ticked off more than a few people.