Geez you're thick. I'm "stuck" on 5 mpg because that's the value you used. It's about a 25% difference, and it is NOT negligible.
I spend about $3300 on gas. If I could save 5 mpg, or 25%, that means I could knock off $825 a year. Multiply by 5 to 8 years (average time a truck is kept around), and that means I save anywhere from $4125 to $6600.
In what bizarre world to you live where $6000 isn't a big difference? People buy (or don't buy) diesels for that kind of money.
Keep in mind the reason I bought a hemi is to tow. So in my usage, the gas bill is going to go up even further once COVID is dead.
Bringing all this back to your original (completely nuts) comment: Yes, Hemi owners can absolutely be concerned about a 5mpg difference in gas, and just because you think $6000 is chump change, the rest of the world doesn't.
You keep talking about unrealistic averages without unpacking the other pieces of the financial puzzle. So to me, taking into account the average time someone keeps a vehicle to state a point about how much money you would spend on gas is irrelevant unless you take into consideration average loan terms, prices, etc. Btw, in the US the average truck loan is 72 months and growing. And unless you're putting 20% down, doing the smallest loan possible, etc, complaining about the gas cost makes logically no sense. Again, as I said before, since the money component of $62 a month is so important to you, why do you keep ignoring the other details like TCO?
And yes, I stand by my original argument. If you buy a hemi, a V8 of any variety, or really any car that just simply doesn't do well on gas, and then claim to be really super concerned about gas you clearly made a bad purchase.
Here's an idea: Buy the V6 when they have $14-18k in rebates and dump a supercharger in it and now you get better mpg and can tow whatever it is you need to tow and save 8k-14k off the cost of the vehicle? Now you're saving $6,000k over the lifetime of the vehicle + whatever you saved on the purchase price. Why didn't you get the V6 with the 3.55 gears? Now you're in almost hemi range if memory serves and better mpg.
You can't
will your hemi suddenly have this drastic increase in mpg. Being concerned about it won't change what you get or spend, so yes, if you're this concerned(which you clearly are), don't buy the truck. Like, I don't know what else to say. You had all the information prior to buying the vehicle, you still bought it, and you're on here losing your **** over an arbitrary random 5mpg I pulled out of the air to simply make a point that it's not that much cash.
Because honestly, $62 a month is less than I made mowing lawns at 15 years old in 1995.
P.S. there are a few V6 owners on the other forum that regularly tow Willwood26BBS or something trailers. I don't own a trailer, don't want a trailer, but when I did ask what I COULD tow if I so desired, it was pretty much a universal response that anything that I could
afford(keyword of this response), would able to be towed.