AG,
Not sure why you would want a Jeep diesel. As you point out they are
notoriously unreliable and don't get much better mileage than the gas
powered v6. Is that little bit of extra torque rally worth the hassle?
Charlie
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:40 AM, 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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