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Originally Posted by big hammer
isn't the ecoboost and gm's new 6.2 rated very similar for fuel economy? but the 6.2 blows it away in power and rated towing capacity.
in the 2v's they would blow the plugs right out of the heads. in the 3v's they would seize in solid.
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Sure it does, but what kind of power, and FE do you think the Ecoboost will get for 2015 now that it's the big dog in fords lineup. I would hope the brand new top dog engine would make more power and achieve decent FE compared to a 4 year old motor lol.
I have had plenty of 2v with 200K+ miles and have never had or heard of someone blowing a plug through the head.
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Originally Posted by big hammer
the 5.0 is hands down a better engine than the ecoboost.
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Having plenty of experience with both I'm going to strongly disagree. I prefer the 5.0 simply because I'm a V8 kind of guy. If the Ecoboost sounded like the 5.0 it would be my choice because it is better in every way.
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Originally Posted by big hammer
now we know not to take anything you said here seriously. the old 6.2 chevy will smatter an ecoboost. they're slow.
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From your post I'm beginning to think you shouldn't be taken seriously, your clearly stating opinions based on blind fanboyism. Have you ever even drove an Ecoboost or 5.0 F150? I'm going to guess no your info is just coming from magazines and the web.
I will admit I am a fan of the F150 but I give GM credit for finally making some competitive trucks. Let's face it there last model of trucks were garbage compared to the competition from Ram and Ford. Not saying as a whole but performance and feature wise.
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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
Except it's not, since the EPA rating for the 5.3L is 23 and the EcoBoost is 22. So advertise away.
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I would rather give up the 1MPG that honestly probably won't even be noticed in real world milage, for the added power the Ecoboost offers. I don't have any experience with the new 5.3, but the old 5.3 was rated at 21 and the closest I could ever get to that was 18 on long straight road at 70 from an underpowered engine.
I'm not trying to dog the new 5.3 seems like a decent engine and it's FE rating is nice. And the new 6.2 is down right awesome!
The people saying the Ecoboost is a POS and slow and can't tow blah blah are annoying as most have probably never even sat in one lol... The Ecoboost was meant to target the 5.3 not the 6.2 The 5.0 was meant to target the old 4.8, and the 6.2's were meant to go head to head. So yes the 6.2 out powers the the Ecoboost as it should.
Now that the 3.5 Ecoboost is the big dog in fords lineup and has the smaller Ecoboost engine to make up for FE I see ford adding more power and aggressive tuning to the Ecoboost. This is just speculation on my part though I'm still hoping Ford still has the next gen 6.2 in development lol