New 3.0L diesel pickups coming from the U.S.

Submitted: Saturday, Mar 17, 2018 at 14:53
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It's a bit of a surprise to see the "Big Three" American manufacturers actually producing totally new diesel engines for the 2018 and 2019 model years.

This - in the land of dirt-cheap petrol, a love of huge petrol V8's, and a general dislike of diesel engines - with many Americans claiming they were noisy, hard to start in their bitter cold winter conditions, and expensive to maintain.

GM is producing a brand new in-line, 3.0L 6 cylinder diesel, Dodge/Chrysler is producing a brand new 3.0L V6 diesel, and Ford is producing a brand new 3.0L V6 diesel.

The Dodge Ram V6 is being built by VM-Motori, the supplier of the engine in the diesel Jeeps, the Ford V6 diesel is based on the Jaguar V6 diesel - and nothing has been said about the origins of the new GM 3.0L diesel.

However, seeing as VM-Motori is the origin of the current, smaller GM Duramax diesels (such as the 2.8L diesel in the Colorado) - then it's not unreasonable to think that GM will also be sourcing its new diesel from VM-Motori.

All these engines are aiming at the 240-250HP mark (180-186Kw), with substantially-improved fuel economy, and the very latest in engine technology.

Ford and GM are also in joint venture to produce their new 10 speed automatic, which will find itself fitted to a huge range of GM and Ford vehicles.

If they can do this in America, why can't we get some of these flash new diesels, here?
I suppose we will, eventually - but only at great cost, like everything that come from the U.S. - and which has the exorbitant "Australia Tax" added!

New GM Duramax 3.0L diesel for 2019

Comparing the new V6 diesels in the 2018 Dodge Ram and Ford F-150

Interestingly, Gale Banks has been working on "militarising" the 3.0L V6 VM-Motori engine, to make it attractive to NATO and the U.S. military, as a "multiple-fuel" engine that can meet military reliability requirements.

Of course, "military reliability" requirements mean it only needs to last 400 hours in combat conditions!

Gale Banks - Inside The VM Motori 3.0L V6 Diesel Engine

Cheers, Ron.
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