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BMW launches the 335d, a 3 Series equipped with a 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged diesel inline-6. By Matt DeLorenzo and Photos by John Lamm provided by: Road and Track
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From Kelly Blue Book survey today reported in GCC. kbb survey of buyers perceptions about diesel vehicles
Note some of the distorted perceptions of the public.
There will not be a significant offering of diesels until 2010 at the earliest.
The price difference is greatly exaggerated by Lutz of GM. Compare the difference in pricing of gas and diesel models from GM and others in Europe. The difference is $200 to $2000, not $4,000 plus.
Another factor to consider is that direct injection and turbocharging of gasoline engines is going to narrow the cost difference between gas and diesel engines.
Finally, diesel is only slice of the future technologies for vehicles.
I think the next two years are going to be very interesting, from a marketing viewpoint. The longer it takes for diesels to hit the market, the harder it's going to be to market them against gas hybrids. I'm looking forward to testing driving the new Jetta TDI Sportwagen when it comes out. I'm convinced that my next vehicle should be a diesel - whether it's a VW TDI (to replace my 1.8T Passat) is yet to be seen. I think the harder part of the equation, for me, is to find what I want in a wagon.
Sulfur is in gasoline too.
Don't forget there is a value for the sulfur.
Indeed they did not get into less sound bite able portion where RUG to PUG is normally refined from the less available light sweet crude, which normally costs 30-40 more than "other than light sweet crude", etc., etc.
I am not sure how you came to the conclusion it is a flawed report. It is a given that sulfur is in crude before refinement and in RUG to PUG also. They are documenting the cost of removal. RUG to PUG sold at the pump is 30 ppm while ULSD is at 15 ppm. RUG to PUG is app 2 to 30 times DIRTIER. I think if they got any more technical most gasser consumers eyes would GLAZE over.
Absolutely!! My diesel will probably full compression up to 400,000 if not 500,000 miles. Very interesting for a 4 banger!!
There are too many examples to at least indicate this is more than operatively true. Indeed if you look over at the Toyota sections, many an oem is still stuck at the 30-50 years ago time frame; i.e., @ the 3,000 to 5,000 OCI's intervals.
I think the macro clue is the 7-7.5% yearly salvage rate and the yearly 7% new car sales rate, which with a 235.4 M passenger vehicle fleet translates to 16 to 16.5 M per year new car sales.
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"..."Indeed they did not get into less sound bite able portion where RUG to PUG is normally refined from the less available light sweet crude, which normally costs 30-40 % more than "other than light sweet crude", etc., etc.
I am not sure how you came to the conclusion it is a flawed report. It is a given that sulfur is in crude before refinement and in RUG to PUG also. They are documenting the cost of removal. RUG to PUG sold at the pump is 30 ppm while ULSD is at 15 ppm. RUG to PUG is app 2 to 30 times DIRTIER. I think if they got any more technical most gasser consumers eyes would GLAZE over."...
The last sentence is an editorial comment and NOT a point of fact.
Indeed that is what the refiners (logistical delivery systems) has been belly aching about in going from "USD to ULSD (500 ppm to 15 ppm- ) ultimately- COST!! Or will you come out and say they have been and continue to lie? Indeed, educate us!?
In 2005 and 2006, then Daimler-Chrysler planted diesels in the Jeep Liberty. They hoped to sell maybe a few thousand. Without any advertising, they sold over 11,000 of them. VW does not advertise their diesels either and up until MY 2006, they could not get enough of them to sell here.
America is ready for clean diesel. GM is sinking their dollars into an alcoholic bliss and hybrid stupidity. If you want great fuel economy from a hybrid, you need a very light right foot on the gas pedal. For a diesel, you need the same right foot to tap all the power that a diesel offers.
I drive a 2005 Jeep Liberty CRD and it is fast. On the highway, the engine lopes along at 1750 RPM at 60 MPH in top gear. To get to 85 MPH takes very little right foot, a very few seconds and no downshift. Tach shows slight less than 2400 RPM at 85 MPH.
People should know that there is a whole lot of crude that is not sweet. All the west Texas curde is very sour.
The main refinery for west Texas is going to be making much more diesel fuel. I read this in the one of the papers I read. To me this says they think there will be more diesel in the new future.
They might excommunicate me from the Corvette religious order, but I would think a Corvette option: twin turbo diesel V8 (with race day 45 mpg and 70 mpg at 65 mph,) Corvette would be beyond a killer HIT !!!! (350-400 hp/550-700 #ft of torque) It boggles the mind to think an 18.5 gal tank would make the range 1260 miles (UP from an already killer 450 miles) with .5 gals (35 miles) to shop for fuel on PRICE!!
Being as how the Corvette yearly production is app 34,000, it would be another option like the ZR1, Z06, etc. etc.
For the model year 2003 VW sold 250,000 units (app), of which ( app) 4% were diesel (10,000 units TDI: passats, jettas, golf, new beetles -1,000 less than Jeep Liberty diesel) . Not only did they not have problems selling the entire inventory, but the regulators could argue there was no measurable difference in addition pollution, let alone a statistical significant increase! Pretty inverted way of looking at things eh? It is almost like looking through the wrong end of powerful binoculars.
I am not sure what happened, but it was for sure (unknown) connection issues.
... On another note I would like to see a "Dura~Vette", but that engine will never go under a low fiberglass hood. So it needs conventional exhaust location with turbos down low on each side. Oopps, there goes the width ???
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http://www.greendieselcorp.com/multimediagallery.php
Further on up the food chain, it doesn't hurt that the durability estimate (injectors) is 1,000,000 miles!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080114/bs_nm/autoshow_toyota_diesel_dc_1
While all the reports of up and coming diesel offerings is encouraging, I’m beginning to believe the word “soon” is a geological term. What few new diesels that have reached the market are well out of my price range or not what I need in a vehicle.
This is the year (according to the wife) that the 1993 Explorer gets replaced with either a sedan i.e. 2008 Taurus or a small SUV/crossover and the affordable diesel selection in this area is nil.
So rather than shop for a used car with a unknown history, she gets a well maintained hand me down and the parents get a new car.
2013 LX 570 2016 LS 460
I am hoping his invention works out. It will be a step in the right direction.
Just like a 1975 Dodge PU and a 2005 Dodge PU are vastly different in complexity, that will be a continuing trend.
Might as well wrap your mind around it and accept it. Complaining ain't gonna change it one ioter.
European models will be equipped with a choice of 140 - or 170 - bhp 2.0-liter turbodiesels, while U.S. models will have a 200-bhp 2.0-liter direct-injection turbocharged four. An optional 3.6-liter V-6 will also be offered with standard all-wheel drive. In Europe, the V-6 will be rated at 300 bhp, while U.S. versions will produce 280.
http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/detroit_auto_show_2008/370/;_ylc=X3oDMTFjN3ZiZHN- 2BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLXB1bHNlBHNsawNwcmV2aWV3LXBhc3NhdGNj
Just because a car is "complex" does not mean that it must be discarded when a complex component needs repair. Car companies do not build cars which cannot be repaired -that would be idiotic on their part.
Complexity is the wave of the future......and you know what else? That complexity can be repaired or replaced when it falls down.
In comparison, gassers look to an aftermarket or crate engine as successful @ 225,000 miles.
Everyone who has ever THOUGHT about it knows that keeping a car 10-15 years is the smart thing economically.
One problem: People generally rule their lives with emotion, not with practicality.
Another problem: People's needs change with family situations. I never would have needed a large SUV back in 2000 if I had not married into three more kids.
And if a sensor is on a car, the engineers who built it put it on there for a good reason. They are smarter than we are.