Ford F-150 Diesel – We Hardly Knew Ya’

[TDRComm]

In January 2017 we passed along the latest truck industry news to you that Ford was entering into the half-ton diesel engine market with their 2018 F-150, 3.0-liter Power Stroke V6, thus becoming direct competition to the Ram 1500, 3.0L EcoDiesel V6.

Fast forward and Ford has officially announced they are dropping the F-150 diesel engine option. All final orders for them were taken by Ford as of July 16th. Ford’s primary reasoning seems to be their higher sales for their F-150 with the EcoBoost 2.7-liter V-6 option, which they say, boasts slightly improved fuel economy over the diesel option, but a significantly higher horsepower rating.

You can read more about this here:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37001047/ford-f-150-power-stroke-diesel-discontinued/

 

[Dl5treez]

Plus...... diesel option unavailable in a “work truck” platform. I’m not even sure you can get it in the XLT

A local construction company looked into buying 50 of them but wasn’t down for putting Lariats and Platinums out as work trucks.

Ford shot themselves in the foot with this one.