I can't wait. Diesels in half ton pickups

[JeffreyLebowski]

Sweet
I want one of these in a Crew Cab LT 4x4.

 

[FoBoT]

that is good news, we need more diesel choices in the US market

 

[Drakkon]

Would be nice but really depends on the transmission/transfer case/rearend they pair with it.

 

[wheresmybacon]

I thought this thread was about jeans...

 

[Anubis]

nice

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
that is good news, we need more diesel choices in the US market

i agree. i would like more choices on diesel vehicles.

 

[Steve]

I would like for diesel prices to go down.

 

[Mo0o]

That article just went completely over my head

 

[IGBT]

..are they reall diesel blocks? or reconfig'd gas blocks. GM did that in the 70's. did they learn their lesson?

 

[Codewiz]

My wife's Golf TDI FTW. 50MPG.

 

[drnickriviera]

Very interesting engine design. I imagine it's pretty cramped in that valve cover with the valves, injectors, and now part of the intake and exhaust manifolds.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: drnickriviera
Very interesting engine design. I imagine it's pretty cramped in that valve cover with the valves, injectors, and now part of the intake and exhaust manifolds.

Just looking at it says it's cramped. Other sites have stated that the engines that are being lab built will be run in vehicles for 2 years before they go on full production. I know it's not much, but a diesel with that kind of power and 23-25MPG would be awesome.

 

[Arkaign]

Now if they'll only put that 4.5L Diesel into the Malibu! That'd be awesome!!!!

 

[DougK62]

That's an awesome design. GM engineers really are some of the best around.

 

[overst33r]

I never saw the logic behind equipping a trucker larger than a Ford Ranger with a gasoline engine...

 

[MovingTarget]

Thats pretty sweet. Its about time we saw GM doing diesel right in trucks below their 2500 series. Now I'd like to see the return of the compact pickup with diesel. They had a diesel S-10 in the 1980s that was a 2.2L i4. Of course it failed like many diesels of the era, but that doesn't mean the concept wasn't good. Small gas trucks nowadays still get pretty crappy mileage and can be a little underpowered with 4cyl engines.

 

[Riverhound777]

Still waiting for my diesel Mazda 3 like they have in Europe.

 

[drnickriviera]

Originally posted by: DougK62
That's an awesome design. GM engineers really are some of the best around.

Wonder if GM developed means developed by Isuzu like the bigger duramax?

 

[chucky2]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I never saw the logic behind equipping a trucker larger than a Ford Ranger with a gasoline engine...

Like this one: Ford Ranger - Diesel Road test

Why Ford...why can't that be offered here in the US????

Is F-150 best selling blah blah blah BS that worth it???

Chuck

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I never saw the logic behind equipping a trucker larger than a Ford Ranger with a gasoline engine...

I'd love to see a Ranger with 1 ton of flagstone in the bed. I did it in my half ton Dodge.

 

[overst33r]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I never saw the logic behind equipping a trucker larger than a Ford Ranger with a gasoline engine...

I'd love to see a Ranger with 1 ton of flagstone in the bed. I did it in my half ton Dodge.

I'm not seeing what you're getting at... That a half ton pickup can have a greater payload than a smaller one?

 

[imported_Flimflam]

[/quote]

Wonder if GM developed means developed by Isuzu like the bigger duramax?[/quote]


No I think I read somewhere else awhile back about it and this one was done completly inhouse in detroit.

 

[marincounty]

Originally posted by: chucky2

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I never saw the logic behind equipping a trucker larger than a Ford Ranger with a gasoline engine...

Like this one: Ford Ranger - Diesel Road test

Why Ford...why can't that be offered here in the US????

Is F-150 best selling blah blah blah BS that worth it???

Chuck

Because diesels are smoking piles of crap that pollute the world?

 

[redly]

Originally posted by: marincounty
Because diesels are smoking piles of crap that pollute the world?

That there is the finest flamebait I've read in a while

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: mariok2006
I never saw the logic behind equipping a trucker larger than a Ford Ranger with a gasoline engine...

I'd love to see a Ranger with 1 ton of flagstone in the bed. I did it in my half ton Dodge.

I'm slightly confused as to your point, but on the farm we've filled and driven a Mazda diesel ute (late 90s or early 2000s) with comfortably over a tonne that when moving rocks to fill washed out creek-bed laneway, and when moving pesticide barrels (with a trailer that was similarly overloaded behind the ute)