Just wondering if you guys think the name along with a Navistar supplied engine will come to an end for the next Super Duty. I'd like to see the name continue but all good things must come to an end I suppose. Who owns the Power Stroke trademark anyway? Ford or Navistar?

 

Ford owns the name Power Stroke so they can keep it or apply it to nay engine they want.
Good question

 

it is an interesting question, i never even thought about it.

i guess since ford owns it, they have the right to keep it.

but maybe if they change suppliers, they will change names to something else, like a new marketing strategy or something.

 

Probably depends on how the 6.4 does up until the new engine. If it turns out to be a decent engine they'll probably want to keep the name going, if it turns out to be synonymous with a POS than maybe they'll be better off canning the name.

 

Yeah it seems like the future is riding on the 6.4L. With any luck they'll have the bugs worked out by the time job two starts.

 

heard a rumor on another forum about a month ago that ford was going in house on a 6.7 and once completed navistar was gone ,but said same rumor claims the 6.0 psd is gonna be the new diesel in the nissan truck in 09/10

 

I couldnt even imagine a nissan with a 6 liter diesel in it.

 

is nissan going to make a fullsize (3/4 or 1 ton truck) now?

I'd love to see that poor titan with a psd in it in its current form, haha

 

That's another thought. Navistar could end up being a supplier to another pickup manufacturer once it cuts off ties with Ford.

 

Here have our old moror we worked out the bugs for you, we now have a better motor. nice.

 

Yeah but the 6.0 wouldn't be emission compliant so we know that rumor is false.

 

What I wonder is will the diesel pickup craze continue. With diesel fuel $.20-$.40/ gal higher than gas. With advanced technology gas rigs with large displacement engines getting better mileage. The new smog requirements. The problem of finding ultra low sulfur diesel. The cost of the diesel option. Will these and other things start a change in what the masses want. I have talked to several guys that tell me they like their diesels but their next truck their going back to gas. These are guys that drive Ford, Chevys, & Dodges.

 

Most guys I talk to that pull say they'll never go back to gas. My dad was one of those guys after he pulled a 4-place snowmobile trailer with my Power Stroke. Ha, now he's buying a Dodge Ram with a Cummins next year.

 

it would be nice to see a ford with a caterpillar engine. the cat engine has been tested world wide ,like the cummins

 

hmmmmm.... so if the diesel craze needs to stop, then Ford would need a large scale powerful gas motor (bigger than the V10) to fill the demand. Howabout hooking two 4.9 I6 300's together to make a 9.8 litre V12? Boy I bet that would be a monster, and there is no way it could get worse mileage than the V10... thoughts?