Tow cars and trailers

On May 25, 7:05 pm, Ray Lovinggood
wrote:

For a while, Jeep did offer a turbo diesel in their
Liberty. It was a Mercedes 4 cylinder turbo diesel,
I think.

That is correct. Except it was a VMI (Italian) engine. 2.8L
turbodiesel. It is still offered in parts of Europe, but only in the
US (not California) in 2005 and 2006. An excellent package.

Jeep has just released a Mercedes-built 3.0L V6 turbodiesel in the
Grand Cherokee. Overall it is an *outstanding* vehicle, IMO.
(disclosu I am a Chrysler engineer and so may be biased)

Regards,

-Doug

Nyal,

I think the smallest diesels in America are the ones
from VW. I'm not sure if NEW ones are being shipped
at this time, but used Beetles, Golfs, Jettas, and,
I think, Passats, can be found with the TDI (Turbo
Diesel Injection??) four cylinder diesel engine. I
know one person with a four door Golf and another with
a Jetta and they both like them.

For a while, Jeep did offer a turbo diesel in their
Liberty. It was a Mercedes 4 cylinder turbo diesel,
I think.

I think Honda will offer their in-house designed four
cylinder turbo diesel in a couple of years. It's available
now in Europe where you can buy it in an Accord. It
would be very interesting if they would offer it in
the Accord and CR-V here in America.

My current Accord, which serves as my everyday car
and crew car (it's the only car I have) has 193,000
miles on it now. I hope it lasts until the diesels
get here!

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

At 21:36 25 May 2007, Nyal Williams wrote:
What are the smallest reliable diesels being offered
in USA/Europe and not necessarily capable of towing?


At 20:24 25 May 2007, Asbjorn Hojmark wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2007 14:47:14 -0700, Marc Ramsey
wrote:

What emission are they measuring? Surely not CO2,
which is typically
much lower than with gasoline for the same power.
(At least on the
kind of diesel cars we use over here).

Particulate emissions. There are some new filters
that should allow
some diesel cars to meet California standards in a
year or two...

Oh, many (most?) European diesel cars have that too.
I believe it'll
be a requirement in all of EU soon (?), but at least
here in Denmark
it's still an option.

-A
--
http://www.hojmark.org/soaring.html

At 21:36 25 May 2007, Nyal Williams wrote:
What are the smallest reliable diesels being offered
in USA/Europe and not necessarily capable of towing?

Not sure if you are asking about the car or the engine!
However, the good small diesel engines are common
rail engines, which apparently allows for better control
over the fuel injection than conventional injectors
- or so Wikipedia says.

My Laguna has one and drives pretty much like a petrol
car (and will cruise all to easily at 90mph in 6th!),
unlike the truely awful diesel I had quite a few years
back. The Laguna also has an 18,000 mile service interval,
and get 45mpg - that's imperial miles & gallons of
course.