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Originally Posted by kypez
I think too many people in Australia won't accept anything but a diesel for their utes. A hybrid with a 2.3 ecoboost would have enough and more torque without the fuel bill but people are not quick to change. And Ford would be crazy to drop the diesel and risk it just yet. If they made them a NCO and see how many pick the diesel over the Petrol Hybrid, that would make things interesting and a good market study.
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They won’t drop the diesel when hybrid becomes available. That would be silly.
And with the extra cost of building diesel engines, a petrol hybrid may very well be near parity price wise, or at least reasonably close.