The Gas Motors Found In New Pickups

The motors found in the newer pickups are specific brands for specific companies of trucks. Ford has the Triton brand motor. GM has the popular Vortec motor. Dodge has the Hemi. Older trucks have different motors than the newer trucks. The newer motors are more fuel and energy efficient. Older trucks had the big and powerful but poor mileage big block motors. For example the 460 big block Ford motor aka the 7.5L was very big but had really poor mileage. A newer motor that had extremely horrible milage was the 8.1L Vortec with the Allison transmition. The 8.1L had more power and torque stock than the Duramax stock. However with the Duramax you could put a bunch of different things into it to make it have a large amount more power than the 8.1L Vortec. With fuel prices the way they are now it is less popular to drive a truck with a large gas motor over a diesel, because diesels are more fuel efficeint.