When your author initially heard the Blue Oval was in the throes of developing a new truck engine displacing a prodigious 7.3 litres, it was assumed someone had frying pans for fingers and simply mistyped the displacement. “Surely they mean six-point-three litres,” I thought while eating a bowl of breakfast nails and shaving with a rusty razor .
In a day and age where most manufacturers are bent on downsizing and turbocharging their gasoline engines , this 7.3-litre brute is a remarkable departure. This engine also features a variable-displacement oil pump that provides more oil when drivers are working the thing like a rented mule, but reduces parasitic loss under light loads. It is hooked to Ford’s ten-speed automatic. Engine start/stop and cylinder deactivation tech goes unmentioned.
drivingdotca Can’t wait to hear all people who go out and buy them complain about the carbon tax.
drivingdotca Too bad it’s not in the Raptor. No substitute for displacement.