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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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