I still like this from Top Gear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTOyiKLARk
(even tho' some of it is questionable)
Jez
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The UK and continent also get a lot of very potent diesels that don't see
>> the light of day over here.....
>>
>
> Oh, now that is something that absolutely fries my goat. I want a Jeep with
> the diesel engine in it. The CRD works great everywhere else in the world,
> but the one and only time they brought it into the USA it resulted in 100%
> transmission failures.
>
> Why did it work on Euro version but not the USA version? Automatic
> transmissions. Here in the USA you can't buy a Jeep with a manual
> transmission and the automatics couldn't handle the torque.
>
> IDIOTS!
>
> It's this type of lunacy that makes me have absolutely no sympathy for
> Chrysler or GM.
>
> Meanwhile GM is screwing around with that loser "Volt" when they could
> achieve similar efficiencies with a decent little diesel.
>
> DON'T get me started.
>
> AG
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