Posted on 09/24/2015 8:15:04 AM PDT by AdaGray
I can get 23 with my ‘99 Cummins.
And that’s cruising 75-80mph across New Mexico.
Not too bad for three tons of steel with the aerodynamics of a small house.
Yeah, flat out on the highway with the boat behind me I get close to that too.
Cummins, best motor ever!
That is awesome...mpg indeed. My first project for retirement is to place that year cummins in my old FJ80 toyota Landcruiser and get back to the quality waters below the Navajo Lake dam with a fly rod .......a lot !
Stay Safe !!
So true.
So true.
“Sources like Autoblog and The Truth About Cars (TTAC) have already reported that at least some BMWs and Mercedes have employed the same kind of test tuning.”
I purchased a 2013 TDI Beetle with 14500 miles for my wife, on Sept. 7th, and just 11 days later found out I wasn’t the intelligent, environmentalist I had sought to be with my clean diesel. Sept. 18 they announced the “defeat” scandal.
Anyway my first reaction was, “no big deal. BMW, Mercedes, GM all have 2 liter diesels, which pass the tests and get great mileage. It will be easy for VW to fix this.”
Now I realize it goes much, much farther. Europe has millions and millions of diesels, making up about 50% of recent new passenger vehicle sales.
The half-million VWs and Audis in the US is a tiny fraction of the overall magnitude. And countries are weighing in left, and well left. I read about Switzerland and South Africa, for instance.
Then looking beyond diesel, have manufacturers cheated on gas engine emisions as well?
I have been poking all around the internet, about this. I notice that “tuning” diesels is pretty huge for trucks.
I’m seriously thinking about removing the single tdi” insignia from the thing,
I believe even Europe has been moving slowly away from their enchantment with diesel cars to more gas engines for a few years now, for anti-emissions reasons.
“I believe even Europe has been moving slowly away from their enchantment with diesel cars to more gas engines for a few years now, for anti-emissions reasons.”
I think I saw an article that Europe had dealt with fuel economy and emissions by going in the diesel direction for several years, while at the same time the US had gone in the hybrid direction.
Diesels have about 50% passenger vehicle market share in Europe, versus about 1% in the US.
The article suggested this scandal may result in a turn in favor of hybrid.
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