The other big advantage of smaller turbo six is when they idle for hours at accident scenes or whatever.. the smaller engine definitely uses less fuel as the v8 cylinder deactivation only works at cruising speeds.. That was the big selling point for Ecoboost to law enforcement agencies plus the pursuit rating of course..

They had a fix for it in the rest of the world, moving to 1.5 EB with conventional 6F trans in 2015 but USA refused to drop Powershift and continued selling for like another three years… I can attest that the EB 6F combo was chalk and cheese comparison with the previous Powershift. So sad that Ford just didn’t go with 6F right form the start……it already had mid gear lock up function.

Nearly all the V8 classics are now exhausted. over 95% of 1500 inventory is now I-6 turbos….   Even before V8s were ended, Ram was having big issues convincing buyers  to lake up the I-6 turbos and now that inventory has spiked, it a lot harder..

Since Cerebus did a bang up job of managing Chrysler all those years ago………not.   Clearly a play by a person desperate to be noticed by his future boss……    

I still think a Lincoln sedan makes far more sense than a Mustang sedan

I see Navigator and Escalade limos a lot

The point of interest that nobody talks about is how the rear seating is set up. In order to make this a practical four door, the rear seat position needs to be moved from where it currently is, in between the rear wheel tubs to forward of this position like a conventional sedan has……not changing that will be an utter waste of time.    

Most definitely a supplier issue where the roller bearings in the roller lifters seem to be failing prematurely. and the reason for roller cams: With modern oils, there’s no phosphorus in ther to poison converters so breaking in  flat tappet cams no longer successful unless you buy classic oil for pre-2006 engines.

It’s failing way more than the 6.2 ever did due to low quality lifters. Wish I had just ordered my 22 with the 6.2 as I will be driving it for a while due to Ford discontinuing the configuration.

You answered your own question, the 6.8 was brought back for MD because it was rugged enough to survive while Ford developed a suitable replacement after the 6.2 failed durability testing. They had a choice, make the often mentioned 7.0 Boss or take the opportunity to totally rework the engine into something new and simpler.   The 7.3 is like Ford’s LS but for bigger vehicles, modifiers are going to jump on this as a better option in a Ford where parkas a coyote is a really tight fit or they just want a pushrod engine for simplicity.   Yes, yes and yes. The V10 was brought back for MD as a stop gap measure after the 6.2 couldn’t pass MD durability test. The 7.3 looks like a total rework of the Boss truck idea  into the pushrod truck engine the brass originally wanted back in the early 2000s.