Bear in mind the following is just my personal take on it:
If they were to start making smaller pickups again and used them in those, this woudn't be such a bad thing but everyone knows
gasoline turbo engines don't like being under a sustained heavy load/strain for too long.
This same basic effect applies to all turbo engines, gas or diesel:
More air & fuel burned means more power and heat generated.
Or in other words:
The bigger the fire, the more heat you get.
Think for a sec - If you blow on a fire, it gets hotter such as a blacksmith using bellows for their forge or the way a torch uses oxygen (Pure Oxygen) so it gets hot enough to do it's work.
In the case of a turbo'ed engine, the extra air by volume makes it have to use more fuel to "Correct" the air/fuel mix or it's runs into a "Running lean" condition, and anytime you add fuel to the engine with extra air too it simply runs hotter due to the extra amount of air/fuel being burned in the first place.
It's a tradeoff of more power (Good) to use with more heat (Bad) to deal with.
In this case turbo's are the new "Thing" to attract buyers with smaller, cheaper engines that also have more power.
I mean available power in a vehicle drives sales and makes dealers happy too - We all know it.
In a weird way it's kinda like we're back in the 60's again except these engines probrably won't last as long and you can't "Do this or that" to them overnight or over the weekend either - And if you have a job at your local fast food joint, you can't afford it anyway like you could back then.
As for my own personal experience with turbo engines:
had one in a 72 Pinto body that was a factory 2.3 turbo engine with a 4-speed out of a 79 Mustang Turbo car and yes, it was strong....
And also showed me how tempermental a gas turbo engine can be.
Even though the body had been lightened it still didn't like being ran too hard too many times before a cool-down period
was required before I went again.
I had even stuffed a V8 radiator in the car and while that helped, it didn't fully offset just how hot it could get
while doing it's thing (Running hard/Doing burnouts on the line... That kind of thing) but it did cool down faster once it wasn't being pushed than it did before I popped that in.
If it got too hot, it lost power and if it ever stalled out on me it was hard to restart too.
Gas engines are not diesels that just LOVE the heat - Everyone knows the hotter a diesel can run, the happier it gets
but that's not the case for a gas burner.
With the Hurricane being what it is, used the way it's been designated to and now this.... I can't really see myself buying a new truck from the Ram lineup except for a Hemi powered one and even then, that's really a No-Go with Etorque in play.
And no, the others aren't faring any better themselves right now.
I'm saying it now:
These trucks may do well when new/newer (And they should within this timeframe - 7 years maybe?) but I believe after a while things will begin showing us the flip-side to it all and to me, it doesn't look like anything I'd want to have OR deal with.... Including paying for it when that time comes.
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