I can tell you that the gas motors, 5.4 v8, 6.8 v10, and the old 5.8 and 7.5 v8's get around 8.5-11 mpg depending on how hard you push them. Most diesels get around 17 mpg.

 

thats not too bad for the amount of power u get.

 

The last trip out pulling a 19' Mastercraft I averaged about 19mpg. One of my buddies was following me pulling a 17' seaswirl with his dodge ram V10 and was averaging about 7mpg. Funny his 8.0L has MUCH less nuts than the little 7.3L TD does, and it's at about 150 more HP and double his TQ and still gets more almost 3x the MPG For dailing driving with no towing it'd get about 16 city and about 23 highway, and that was with bullydog 4 bank chip, 5" exhaust, big woof turbo, and a few other goodies.

 

Subaru?



500hp, I'm sure you could easily tow another Subaru with it.

 

Doubt the chassis is made for it. You'd have to do some serious reinforcing. Towing isn't simply HP. You'd probably snap a gear the first time you let out the clutch. My truck had a max payload of about 2 tons(3800lbs) and a max towing of 12,500lbs. Don't think that thing could come close to that.

 

Dodge 1500, thats wht we got and its pretty nice, im sure it can pull a subaru. or if you want to go all out you can get the SRt-10 ram.

 

Going to look at a 1500 tomorrow, seems to be ok from what I have seen so far.

Thanks for all the replies folks.

Mike

 

a :edit:

 

I think we should get a SRT-10 ...

 

Sorry mate I simply can't get anything related to.. oh nevermind.

 

An Srt-4

 

yea...mike said no SRT-10 cuz he loves those SRT-4 ....

 

Just drive your damn car to the track !

 

It's not getting there that bothers me, its whether it can get me home

Mike

 

95 Tacoma with bigger brakes. Definitely your best bet.
Anybody who thinks the car is too light to tow, has never tried.