Trent: The fuel economy is small potatoes. V8 diesels are troublesom. They don't stayed tuned near as well as inline 6s and they don't give near the hours of service between rebuilds.
All this should take is look at statistics 85% of all diesels over 100 hp are inline engines. I'm sure the industry that use them have looked at overall efficiency. I suspect that 85% figure is actually low in the past ten years. V8 diesels over 100 hp have all but disappeared. I tried one of those 1468 at a demonstration back in 1976. I went home that day, and no one could have convinced me to bet money on that 1468 over my 1066 in the field all day. They were so damn close, I wouldn't have laid money on either one over the other.
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