3rd Batt Ranger

Excellent, does this mean we don’t need to go burn and loot our own neighborhoods now? I’ve never been quite able to figure when and when not to do that.

Ok, you had me for a sec with your first sentence, my thought was, um, it’s badged in the quarter panels, good one. The only intent of my comment was 100% of buyers don’t all pick an engine for the same reason thus, the 1% comment isn’t factual. Nor is ‘don’t need’ a 6.2 engine a reason not to buy it, and that having the ability to pay cash for 3 trucks at once, or in my case for just one, up front, a still try to and still money anytime possible is not the same as $20-$30/week being the deciding budget factor for a 6.2 or 5.3. If the latter is the case, then, just as everything else, jmho, A 55k truck is the budget issue, not $20-$30/wk extra for 93 octane. Doesn’t seem to me to be that difficult of a concept to grasp, but again, to each his own. I don’t ‘need’ a 6.2, but I have one. I didn’t ‘need’ a new truck, but I did want one so I bought it and passed the 08 F150 to my son. Would 87 save me $20/wk, sure, but making whatever the financed payments would have been to my savings account instead of buying the truck would save me even more money. But again, to each his own, the ‘1% need’ is irrelevant.

“Anyone.....that is obsessed...”, seems clear my comment refers to ‘anyone obsessed with’ and not ‘everyone is...”. My point still stands, if $15-$30 a week is damaging enough to a budget to cause some one to possibly settle on a 5.3 engine, then there is a rather high probability the truck itself is being squeezed into a budget that doesn’t fit. There is also nothing wrong with ‘wanting to save a buck’, more people in general should try out that way of thinking, wanting to ‘save a buck’, isn’t the same as well, I can put a 55K truck in the drive way, but only if I opt for the 5.3 b/c $20 a week, $1,020/yr or 1 1/4 of a monthly truck payment if financed. Maybe, just maybe, that 55K financed would be better served by financing a 30K truck that, comparatively, saves $50/week and the payment difference stashed in a 401k/IRA. Point being, &20-$30/wk in gas likely isn’t (or prolly shouldn’t be) a reason someone will ‘settle’ for the 5.3, that’s all I am saying, but to each his own. Sua Sponte.

“Is the 6.2 right engine for 1% of those who buy it? sure”. Your comment requires the assumption that 100% choose the 6.2 or 5.3 for the same reasons you do or don’t, which is, of course, 100% wrong. Anyone buying a full size truck that is obsessed with mpg and per gallon cost of 87 vs 93, well, that’s their first problem with buying a full size truck, but a workable problem nonetheless. Not to mention, someone spending 55k-60K on a truck and is worried about the extra $15-$30 per fill up, well, check your budget again before buying, but to each his own. I bought a 2020 AT4 in April with the 6,2. Got the 6.2 b/c the only AT4 available with the options I wanted had the 6.2, nothing more or less than that. It takes 93 octane, ok, is what it is. Again, $1.89 vs $2.15 gal, if I needed to worry about that, then Canyon or Tacoma or whatever is what I should probably buy. For me, the 6.2 comes off the line much faster than the 5.3 as well as much quicker from say 50 to 85, thus glad I have the 6.2 and not the 5.3, but that’s me and I’m not 100% of all other buyers.