I couldn't believe it happened, a wise dealer

[triton's best]

ive seen more v10s and v8s on the road

[boatflounder]

Well they finally found the truck and it made it to the dealer lot last night, but cant be found on the lot now, since its in my driveway!

its a lariat cc dark stone over pueblo gold 4X4 V10 of course. cant beleive how nice this truck really is. Thanks for all the info Ive gained from this site.

[78bigbronco]

Sounds like a beauty. Might be a good time for you to start using the gallery feature in your account

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Originally Posted by JKBrad

VW has a very nice V10 turbo diesel. 5.0 liters and around 325 hp or so. Ford should have contracted that motor for the F150.

after 42 years of working VW's .i can atest to the fact that V10 true twin turbo dieisel a great totally trouble free engine. only thing we did was change the oil. problems? back out the door. even more so it is so smooth one would think it was burning gas. sound like a diesel? no like a gas motor.. yes on the v12 for the audi suv built on vw's floor pan.

i'm not up on it's size.just when i retired we heard about it in the mechanic training schools and from factory service directors. my guess is about 5.5 litters . the motor is not a one peice block! it is alloy foam formed, with a steel bed pan pressed into the lower end to support the forged steel crank and rods. there are special bolts from the block deck down into the bed pan. the dual over head cam,4 valve heads then tighen down into the special block bolts, this way there is no flex in the motor. it has no steel cylinder liner .the bores are flame hardned with a specail process to stand up to the coated alloy pistons.

i saw with my own eyes a factory test car with 200.000 trouble free miles.

this same motor was being played with in v4, v6, v8, the v10 and v12. configureations.that we heard of in the school.germany has always had strong diesel engines all due to what fuel over there has always cost.

but vw and m.b are not the only german car builders making a deisel. add bmw to the list. that one again is a small displacment but inline as they always had in gas motors.

if some one told me i had a choice of a land rover engine or the vw in a truck. well truth is i would take the vw.