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50 MPG Chevy Cruze Diesel!
Topic Started: Jul 12 2011, 05:08 PM (3,319 Views)
bogs
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Duct tape heals all wounds

That, and anyone that remembers diesels from the 80's was less than impressed by the offerings. Sure they have improved, but your not going to find too many that drove them then in a hurry to buy one now.
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dimetrodon


Diesels have huge potential that is yet unrealized. Our Metros would probably approach or exceed 75 mpg if they had an 800cc, 3cyl. diesel in them.
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Coche Blanco
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800cc diesel? Not unless you turbo it. I wouldn't want to drive that slug, and I drive a 55hp metro.
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nerys
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if you put a NON TURBO 3cyl 800cc Diesel engine geared right in a metro not only would you get 75+ mpg but it would be faster and stronger than your existing 55hp engine.

its all about the grunt baby. Torque. massive quantities of torque. would MORE than make up for the "small size"
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bogs
Aug 30 2011, 11:47 AM
That, and anyone that remembers diesels from the 80's was less than impressed by the offerings. Sure they have improved, but your not going to find too many that drove them then in a hurry to buy one now.
You're right on 1980's Diesels Bogs... I owned a non-turbo Mercedes Diesel for a year or two, drove a friends Diesel Rabbit, even test-drove a mid-1980's non-turbo F350. Less than impressed was an understatement, it took years to wash the bad taste out of my mouth, stinky, rattly, slow, particularly the VW and Ford.

When the New Beetle came out in 1998 I think, I test-drove the turbo Diesel. I didn't wind up buying one, but man was I very impressed! night and day difference, no smoke, little if no noise, no Diesel smell at all. I'd replace my Metro with one if the prices and repair parts weren't so darn high.

If they were cheaper, and Diesel fuel prices weren't MORE volatile than gasoline, I might buy a smaller modern Diesel car.

If I wasn't in California (home of out-of-control regulations) I might be interested in doing a 25-40hp Diesel swap into my Metro. But I'd turn it into a career long project, since I'd want a late 90's version, turbo, clean burning, quiet, modern. Otherwise using some cast-off small Diesel generator or Yanmar sailboat engine would be a downgrade from the G10, in my opinion.
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