2026 HEMI or Hurricane?

[NJT3]

I have a 2015 with the hemi and a 2025 with the I6. I'd take the I6 over the hemi everyday. The I6 is smoother and quite a bit faster than the hemi and it pulls hard way past any reasonable speed limit. It can be a little jerky under low throttle, but I don't know if that's an engine or transmission issue.

A little jerky is why went with hemi v8 et vs Ford ranger turbo way jerky transmission plus those turbos you have to feed it higher octane to see real-world mpg..

 

[BowDown]

Mines not jerky at all, at any speed. As for the octane, I fill up at costco and was already using 93 so no change for me. Not running 87 in either truck

 

[BowDown]

I'm not sure I would call the Hurricane simple either because it has two less cylinders. It's DOHC with twin water & oil cooled turbos, electronic wategates, electric water pump, high pressure direct injection, etc. Also, the Hemi has been around since how long now? I suspect it's production has been amortized down quite a bit by now, whereas the Hurricane is a ways from that.

Do we actually have something official that states production costs of these engines currently?

I don't know that either are any simpler than the other but the I6 isn't complicated either. On paper, both Hurricanes are better than the HEMI. In real world driving, both the Hurricanes are better than the HEMI. Anyone considering either should probably go drive both trucks before making a decision or commenting (not directed at you, in general).

I don't get the failure or rebuild aspect the haters keep making as there's more angry HEMI owners that needed a new engine on this forum than there are angry Hurricane owners that need a new engine; I haven't seen any and I've only seen on on the Hurricane 3.0 FB group. I also don't get the failure/rebuild comments because the trucks have a 10/100,000 warranty, you're not paying for the failure anyway much less keep the truck long enough for it to fail. There's people in the FB group with 70K miles on hurricanes already with no failures/issues

 

[wvinson]

I don't know that either are any simpler than the other but the I6 isn't complicated either. On paper, both Hurricanes are better than the HEMI. In real world driving, both the Hurricanes are better than the HEMI. Anyone considering either should probably go drive both trucks before making a decision or commenting (not directed at you, in general).

I don't get the failure or rebuild aspect the haters keep making as there's more angry HEMI owners that needed a new engine on this forum than there are angry Hurricane owners that need a new engine; I haven't seen any and I've only seen on on the Hurricane 3.0 FB group. I also don't get the failure/rebuild comments because the trucks have a 10/100,000 warranty, you're not paying for the failure anyway much less keep the truck long enough for it to fail. There's people in the FB group with 70K miles on hurricanes already with no failures/issues

The only failures I 've heard of on the hurricane is from mucked up thermostats that stick closed and overheated the engine. Heat problem, not an engine problem.