On the forum for the anticipated 6.7 diesel going into the Superduty there is a link to one of those 'spyshot' articles that you have all seen and my experience is that they are usually not far off. 2011 will get the new SCORPION engine.
There are a few threads talking about fuel prices and some links. Now take this all with a grain of salt but there is an analyst talking of $225 price for a barrel of oil and $10 / gallon fuel. All this by 2012!!

 

Wow, I can hardly wait for that to happen...Hopefully canola prices will go crazy too!
Got any horses on the farm? They may become very valuable!

 

These high grain prices will not result in a much different bottom line unless everything lines up just right. For anyone who hasnt priced phosphate fertilizer its supposedly $1500 to as high as $1600 / tonne compared to the $400 or so a couple years back. The tractor that burns 150 - 200 gallons of $4.75 / gallon farm diesel per day is bad - a guy cant afford to put in too long of a day lol!!!
My brother was talking to our banker the other day and he gave us the impression of going from gung - ho optimism to slightly leery of the level of spending going on. For anyone not closely associated with the industry the magnitude of what could possibly be setting up for a big collapse is hard to grasp but the level of debt, both long term(usually involving more equity and not as extreme a risk) but even more critical, the short term debt associated with putting the crop in the ground is becoming way, way too high of a percentage of equity. Its like high stakes poker at its best. With the increased farm size, higher crop inputs due to continouus cropping, and the fact that the majority of the crop goes into the ground with borrowed money to the tune of at least $100 per acre and maybe closer to the $150 range there are guys way over extended. If a guy seeds 5000 acres, even at $100 / acre, do the scary arithmetic!
I hate to sound too pessimistic but I have to put my family's name on a good chunk of debt in the next two months and I hope we can see it through to repayment.

 

the fuel guru's are just like terrorists... they love to say big numbers and send people running like little mice.

the new engine options are nice to see, i think its time for a refresher but i hope they don't do away with the "tested, tried, and true"!!

 

I think ford is trying to get back into place with the tried tested and true. The 6 liter fiasco cost ford tons of business, and a new fresh powerplant is exactly what they need. Ford has always been fairly good in their trucks with producing reliable engines, with a few exceptions, and usually it takes one year of a screw up to fix everything.

I havent checked into it, but is ford going with an in house diesel? If so they better make it good, it could make or break them!

Either way my ol 7.3 is gonna be sticking around. The new diesels just arent getting the economy that I would be please with in a super duty sized truck.

 

Yeah no kidding i saw the spy shot of the scorpion 6.7l diesel trucks basically the same just a weird ugly hood on it yeah preppy im sure the 6.7l scorpion is a in house diesel because there having issues with navistar so but 2011 the 6.7l might be out

 

Its far enough away that who knows. I hope it works out well though!

 

If fuel prices continue to rise at the current rate who knows what the future will hold for affordable driving?

 

talking to my folks today, fuel is 133.9 there... its starting to hurt.

 

Wow that is terrible

 

That 133 isnt that far ahead of our 127 here. Save 2 cents a liter now for gas if i fill up in langham.

 

Buy fuel at the Superstore, Extra Foods or Canadian Tire and get 5 cent coupon per litre towards your store purchase.

 

i don't know about canadian tire, but my trucks run like crap on superstore's fuel!!

 

I used to run canadian tire gas and it worked well.