For all those diesel folks around here, I would hope to see this automobile become a reality.
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For all those diesel folks around here, I would hope to see this automobile become a reality.
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I'd rather see some diesel-powered small and mid-range SUVs. Give me a CR-V with a 30+mpg and a 5000-lb. towing capacity.
You can get a Liberty with a diesel.Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
Or even better a Grand Cherokee! ::Banana::Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto
How about a VW Touareg TDI.Quote:
Originally Posted by POS Racing
V10 533 ft/lbs of torque and probably best friend to the service department.
Awesome vehicle, but the price is not so great. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Radio-Active
If I was to get a Diesel one of the key criteria would be it would need to run on a regular basis, so I guess the VW is out. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Radio-Active
Plus $59K for a Two-Rag TDI no thanks!
The Liberty CRD goes away for '07. I looked at one before we bought the CR-V, but the general cruddiness of the Liberty kept me away at the time. Last year, I had a Liberty as a rental for a week, and we used it as a support vehicle for the Houston Tour. Compared to the CR-V (which we'd used as a support vehicle for Walnut Ridge just a few weeks earlier), the Liberty had waaaay less useful cargo capacity, and it was just a real sh!tbox by comparison. It rode like a truck, it stopped like a truck, and the interior was teh suck, in terms of materials, build quality, and layout. Living with one for a week made me miss the CR-V, and it completely reaffirmed our decision to buy the Honda over the Jeep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miatamoto
While waiting on my car tires to be replaced at Eldorado Motors, I looked at one. I have to agree. The rear bench was the worst bench seat I have ever sat in. There was no denying the shoddy workmanship in the materials. It would be nice to find a wrecked model to take the engine and tranny out and place in a small truck from Nissan or Toyota, though.
I really wanted to get a small sized pickup and held on to my 82 Chevy Luv Diesel for years after I would have liked. I finally traded it in in 1999 for a Nissan Frontier. It had 285,000 miles on the engine and still ran pretty good. A guy I knew from my previous job had 450,000 on his and was still running on the original engine. Mine was a rust box with beuty bumps(hail damage) all over it.
I like diesels, but I haven't heard anything good about the one Chrysler currently puts in their minivans.
The diesel Liberty was poorly done, only 1 or 2 mpg better than the gas version, and the reviewers thought it was a real dog performance wise.
Why DCM didn't have Cummings build them a decent engine is beyond me, and the general build quality of Chrysler products is enough to scare me off of them for life. Imagine a tinkery Italian diesel engine with the legendary crappy minivan transmissions...
My dad owned an Isuzu diesel pickup that wouldn't die, and a GM V6 they put in the Celebrity. I've owned 2 VW diesels, a GM 6.5 V8 and currently drive a 7.3 V8 F250.
With the electronic management of the newer diesel engines and the emission controls, the legendary diesel durability is long gone, and much of the economy is gone too.