Actually, the diesel engine has changed a lot since the 80's.
It starts just as well in cold temperatures as itsgasoline counterparts, dozent
stink anymore, it is more reliable and economical...
I think what AG is hinting is that the Jeeps offered her equipped with diesel
(Dizel) engines are coupled with crummy transmissions. One thing that he
furgot to mention tho, is the fact that the real Jeeps really don't have this
problem...:)
The Liberty (aka Cherokee for the rest of the world), Patriot, Compass arent
really Jeeps. They fall into the category of the Touareg, Land Rover etc.
Cars that you haul your groceries with, take your girls to a soccer practice
with, but cant really take out in the wilderness.
Boris
P.S. Yeah, I know...Real Jeeps are built not bought...:)
Re: [OM] Photographing Police Officers - Clarification from No10
from Charles Geilfuss
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Re: [OM] Photographing Police Officers - Clarification from No10
From:
Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:01:50 -0400
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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