What I'd kill for, personally, is an America-sold Ranger with a turbo Barra in it.

Preferrably with a 6 or 7 speed manual

We need something to fill the hole left by the Syclone, damnit.

Nah, we don't pussy foot around with that 6cyl nonsense anymore. 5.0 or bust

The last time we had a V8 in a medium/small pickup truck, we had the bullshittery that was the 5.3L Canyon.

Let's not do that again.

V8s are great...for muscle cars and big trucks

lol we don't even have L6's stateside anymore.

Not American made, but we do have them

And not in trucks, I admit

Well, yeah, BMW

BMW's six bangers are all L6s

Even their diesels

Mercedes' new 6 cylinder is gonna be an L6 too, IIRC

Also the Ram 2500 diesel is an L6

A big one

GM has a new 6cyl 3.0 diesel

Yeah, we love our Cummins lol

That's an inline? Huh, didn't know that.

I thought for sure they'd go V6 like FCA and Ford.

Nope! 😄

Cuz that's mainly what those guys do now when it comes to trucks: copy each other.

GM's 2.7T 4 cylinder is probably the newest idea any of the Big Three have had for trucks in years

Yeah, I'm hesitant about that. Maybe in commercial vans, or as a base option in the Camaro lol

Tiny 4bangers don't belong in trucks

2.7 liters is "tiny"

For a 4 banger

Wot

The cylinders in that thing are massive

It's big for a 4banger, tiny in displacement for a truck

I'm willing to bet it will make torque far easier than the 2.7 ecoboost

For a 4 cylinder, low revving turbo engine, that's huge

And it doesn't even make much boost

For a base truck engine, it's a massive improvement over the 4.3L V6

I'd trust the robustness of that 4.3 more over the new 4cyl

Well yeah

That's basically any 20 year old engine, though

Turbocharging has not equated automatically to bad reliability since the 1980s, though.

No, but new engine tech usually does

What about this engine is new?

Everything