IH never had a successful inline diesel engine before the DT466. Everything else was just a matter of trying to get something right...which they finally did. Then the 6.9 was pretty decent right out-of-the-box.
But I dare you to show me a Ford or Chevy GAS engine with the pure GUTS of a comparable-sized International truck gas engine. The Ford and Chevy "car" engines would rev higher and quicker, but when you really need to pull something, you get an International so you can actually DO the job. Closest thing Chevy had to a gas "truck" engine was the 348/409...and some idiot in the GM marketing chain decided they'd be better in an Impala on the dragstrip.
And when Ford wanted a "real" truck engine, they went to IH for the 6.9 and 7.3 diesels. It took Cummins to build a Dodge diesel, and Isuzu to design the Duramax for GM. ANY of which I'd put in a tractor, you understand...just not a "car" engine under ANY circumstances, unless I was building a high-rpm pulling tractor for runs of 300 feet at a time, not for pulling a plow or a mower all day.
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