Update Speculation thread

There is also the possibility of an ~8.0l V10,
After all the Ford's shortly after this era used the 6.8 triton, and I'm sure dodge would've put the 8.1 magnum V10 in a medium duty if they made one.

A V10 engine is also one of the few things you wouldn't see In any other era of truck, so I'm surprised they haven't put one in the D-series yet.

 

Do you think it will have a preselector gearbox, like select the 1st, drive like a normal car. While driving, the preselector, behing the wheel, you can choose between 2nd, 3rd or 4rd. When selecting the like the 3rd gear and you are still in 1st without releasing the pedal or touching the clutch, it will stay in 1st. But if you release the gas pedal, the car will shift automatically to the gear (3rd) you had preselected, the car will shift automatically.

This kind of gearbox was a non-sychronised manual gearbox, which was transformed as a semi-automatic.

 

Dodge did make a contemporary medium duty truck in Mexico only at the same time the US 3/4 and 1 tons offered a V10. Unfortunately there isn't a heck of a lot of info on them but as far as I can tell they only offered Cummins and Perkins diesels.


Edit: I asked ChatGPT what engine options were in that and it said the V10, but gave a source as "trust me bro" and continued to say some comically false statements about the Dodge lineup, so... Take that as you will...

 

I mean, I don't speak Spanish, but does that not say "Gasoline and LPG"? According to wikipedia there was never an LPG version of the Magnum family of engines, however even in medium-duty trucks, I could only ever find examples of LPG engines based on petrol engines.

 

Good point...

I did find this post on a forum claiming that they did get the V10 (Well, they say the 8.3 (Viper engine) instead of the 8.0 (the displacement that ended up in the 2500 and 3500)), but the link given as a source is broken. Still, that is interesting....

Historically I have been against Gavril getting a V10 since I hoped that Bruckell would fill that niche, but thinking about it nowadays... GM had prototype V10's for their pickup that never made it into production, and Ford and Dodge both offered V10's, which means IRL all of the big 3 had or nearly had a V10 in the late 1990's...

 

As far as i know, petrol engines can run LPG without modifications, just additional injectors. Maybe it's a dealer option or something similar?

 

Just saw this now, I'm so glad they're adding fading lights. Really adds to the immersion.

 

it does on the short flatbed
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they really went with weird styling as the point of that styling was to look big rig like

 

Do you guys think that we will get revamped lightbars? Especially the Halogen one?
Maybe new ones? That would be cool

 

There could probably be new (or older) variants but the current ones could possibly be slightly reworked to fit the correct light variant.

 

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Here we go again...

 

Well, it is a national holiday in some parts of Germany today, so that might be why

 

wait before we continue is the car a gavril or a burnside ?

 

How are we supposed to know?

 

I thought the engine was Bruckell?

 

its a cherrier

 

that pretty mich means its going to be a bruckell

 

It can also be a Soliad version premium with Bruckell's engines, sharing the same engines and components

 

etk-i series remaster maybe idk