I trust him, heh.

Don’t worry you can still buy OLD GM stock. Despite warnings from the SEC, new GM, and anybody who can read a P&L, you can still buy stock in the BK’d company.

I wish them the best of luck.

And as to all those super duty trucks running around…If you pull a huge boat on the Weekend you still have to have the truck even thouugh you dont use it the other 5 days of the week.

Seems like the HD trucks are doing HD a small amount of the time. Why not medium sized trucks doing heavy work a small amount of the time? Or make a couple extra trips a few times per month?

Tired of the monster vehicles doing commuter duty and crowding up the roads. And no, I don’t drive a Miata. VBG!

As a black man that enjoys my occasional smoke (Marlboro Reds), I have to disagree.

Ford did a great job of subduing the annoying clatter that accompanies most diesels.

Don’t know if it sell more trucks though. If Ford really did develop this engine all by their lonesome, without outside help, AND it is reliable in the field; I will be truly, truly impressed.

The current 6.4 liter Powerstroke is already one of the quietest diesels on the road, this new one is just amazing. The mediocre 6.4 liter and 5.4 gas V8 have been the only things holding back the Super Duties from complete dominance in the heavy duty truck market, nice to see that situation is about to be fixed.

EPA.

Despite which, half the reason gas engines are so freaking amazing these days is the electronics on them enable squeezing that last bit out of the motor. Diesels have lagged in the electronics department, but are catching up fast.

I don’t think the mid 80’s was the end of mechanical diesel in the US, I think even into the late 90’s some stuff was at least part mechanical (Dodge trucks?)

I never did understand the Yankee obsession with adding electronic controls to diesel motors. The Detroit Diesel 6.2L V8, a fine motor, and the one found in my 1985 Suburban, is probably the last of the “fully mechanical” types that can run, in some kind of fashion, under the widest range of conditions, fuels, defects or breakages.

Diesels in trucks are now for poseurs and black-smokers. Pah!

Oh, I get it; the guys who buy diesels in their trucks use them for real work, so they don’t need to advertise their engine like the poseurs that buy gasoline V8s in their “work” trucks.

The truck is even more ugly than the last generation. And the interior is just as bad.

Ford just can’t get their trucks right…(unless you go by severely inflated and misleading capability numbers…then they clearly are the best)

You are aware that there are NO publicly traded shares in new GM right?

Everyone said I was crazy.

Now its over $7 a share. :-P

I’m just waiting for GM to finish their bankruptcy proceedings so I can purchase 10,000 shares of GM.