Ford Super Duty & Medium Duty trucks getting a new gas engine

[Yaj Yak]

Report: Ford Super Duty to Get New Gas Engine - PickupTrucks.com News

It may take a few years, but Ford Super Duty (F-250 to F-550) and medium-duty (F-650 and F-750) pickup trucks look like they'll be getting a new torque-heavy 7.0-liter V-8 or V-10 gas engine. And all we can say is that it's about time.

With roots going all the way back to 1997, the 6.8-liter Triton V-10 has been the engine choice for several generations of Super Duty pickups, quite a few E-Series chassis cab and cutaway vans, and many motorhome chassis. It even played a role in the ill-fated Ford Excursion SUV. But now, according to Reuters, it looks like the Essex Engine Plant in Ontario, Canada, will get a $700 million investment to bring the workhorse V-10 engine into the modern age.

We have little information about the new gas engine or any possible upgraded transmission it's likely to be mated to, but we're guessing the motor will benefit from many of the same mpg-stretching fuel economy technologies we've seen in other Ford motors recently. So, we expect it to provide more horsepower and torque while achieving better empty and loaded fuel economy numbers over the engine it's replacing. More to come.

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[DEEZUZ]

[MENTION=7923]CTC DEEZUL[/MENTION] hates this

 

[DEEZUZ]

These big liter gassers are scary. School bus manufacturers already started putting 454 and v10s in their chassis and putting propane to them. Their tired of diesel expenses.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

School bus manufacturers sound like a bunch of pussies

 

[DEEZUZ]

Yea but you tell me as a customer having a fleet of a few hundred 365s(6.0s) that diesel didn't leave a nasty taste in your mouth and a red asshole

 

[Eagle]

In for Ecoboosted 7.0L engine platform :naughty:

 

[DEEZUZ]

And trying to work with cummins for warranty....

 

[Eagle]

What are you suggesting, good sir?

 

[DEEZUZ]

You're safe, you're Dodge. But try getting warranty on industrial Cummins application. Hoops and hoops

 

[Eagle]

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Ah yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I got some tingles and jingles.

 

[RICH17]

"ill fated Excursion"?

 

[DEEZUZ]

Yep. Excursion was like #3 on the worst selling list ever.

Yet the diesels are going for $25k with 200k miles

 

[GTPpower]

This is awesome. Someone needed to come back out with a gas motor that can pull.

 

[torquelover]

This is good news, especially for the RV folks. That V10 needed to rev to make power, and since you're basically sitting on top of or right next to the motor in a Class A RV, that was not a good thing.

I hope they redo the F53 chassis as well so it doesn't ride and handle like crap at the same time.

 

[DEEZUZ]

That V10 needed to rev to make power

lol... ask [MENTION=4846]Zack[/MENTION] about dat

 

[GLADIATOR]

Ford Super Duty & Medium Duty trucks getting a new gas engine

Propane engines need spark plugs like every week. What's book time for spark plug change?
Plus you have to be propane certified

 

[Yaj Yak]

wat

 

[Yaj Yak]

This is good news, especially for the RV folks. That V10 needed to rev to make power, and since you're basically sitting on top of or right next to the motor in a Class A RV, that was not a good thing.

I hope they redo the F53 chassis as well so it doesn't ride and handle like crap at the same time.

my buddy is a medium/HD truck mechanic shop owner and his personal RV has the v10- he can get 8mpgs around 70 mph too... which isn't bad for a 32' barn.