Check out this, I was searching on motor trend , and stumbled upon this article, some of you may have seen it, but I had not. They say the the cummins 600 is "noisy, even for a diesel"?

Pretty interesting, I quess ford still had pilot injection?

http://motortrend.com/roadtests/pick...ks/index2.html

 

http://motortrend.com/roadtests/pick...ks/index2.html

oops try this one!

 

http://motortrend.com/roadtests/pick...ks/index2.html

I was trying to get it to the beggining of the article here it is, sorry.

 

that write up is the best that stupid motor trend has ever done for dodge,but as usual they never can leave well enough alone and have to ad stupid crap like "third place audience" snip snip by moderator motor trend!!!

 

I wonder how much Ford pays them. I don't know why they said the Dmax was the noisiest of them all. My mom's Chevy Dmax is extremely quiet. To quiet for my tastes. Quieter than my friends 03 Cummins. If dodge would put a 5 spd behind the cummins, hands down, it would win. Oh well. I don't put much stock into what those types of magazines say. I go with what the people say and the people say the cummins is the best engine. And I'm sorry, but the Harley Ford looks like . Does GMC put a different size fuel tank on their trucks than Chevy? Mom's only has a 25 gallon tank and it doesn't get anywhere near 18 mpg. It gets 16 at best and 10 towing 10K lbs.

 

"limited appeal Cummins engine", eh?

Isn't it something like 75% of all Dodge Heavy Duty trucks are sold with a Cummins.

Yeah, it may be limited alright... by how many they can crank out!

 

how about that aisin 6 speed auto that rumors have said is going in on the allpar forums???

from the pic's on the aisin site, that 6 speed is big... [looks a little bigger than the allison1000]

 

and it's only $.83 an issue! man i can't believe they still have a audience. but i can't believe a lot of things these days. oh well, try to have a merry Christmas

 

This is what the article said; "While it seems the noisiest, that's more of a perception of the engine's particularly clattery texture. In reality, our dB meter perceived it as quieter than the GMC Duramax whether we were standing in front of the truck, seated behind the wheel at idle, or accelerating hard out of the hole."