diesel

[HummBebe]

Sorry sweetie, we've been busy playing with a troll.

Yes we would love a diesel for the H3. Might be a while, like 3-5 years before we see one in the US. But it will show up eventually.

[-=Mac=-]

Originally Posted by HummBebe

Sorry sweetie, we've been busy playing with a troll.

Yeah, I noticed... Your remarks in my introduction thread make sense to me now.

Originally Posted by f5fstop

I don't like the idea, and it will be quite a while before one hits the USA market. But there is one going to Europe next year.

I'm curious as to why you don't like the idea.

While I certainly don't aspire to follow Europe's example in most things (especially their penchant for socialism) Europe has diesel available in most models of vehicles. Almost all of their larger vehicles are diesel powered. Here in North America, diesels remain the exception. Given the huge advances and improvements made in the past decade, diesel is an excellent option, especially for vehicles like the H3.

-Mac

[Desert Dan]

I would not want a diesel in a light duty vehicle.
I wouldn't want to behind a diesel while wheeling. No Thanks

Maybe a Cummings diesel if I was towing horses, hogs or hay of a trailer.



If you have a leaking gerry can of diesel I wil stink up the truck and won't evaporate.

[f5fstop]

Originally Posted by -=Mac=-

Yeah, I noticed... Your remarks in my introduction thread make sense to me now.


I'm curious as to why you don't like the idea.

While I certainly don't aspire to follow Europe's example in most things (especially their penchant for socialism) Europe has diesel available in most models of vehicles. Almost all of their larger vehicles are diesel powered. Here in North America, diesels remain the exception. Given the huge advances and improvements made in the past decade, diesel is an excellent option, especially for vehicles like the H3.

-Mac

They stink, and for the cost of the diesel, as well as the higher cost of diesel fuel, it is not worth the price. I will be satisifed with a nice V8 .
Desert Dan said it best, for this size vehicle, unless you are pulling a farmyard full of animals, a diesel is not necessary. For a vehicle the size of an H2, a diesel might be ok, but if an option, I would not purchase one.

[-=Mac=-]

Here in Canada, the cost of diesel fuel is about the same as the cost of regular gasoline and much less than premium. I wasn't aware that diesel cost was more in the States.

The smell of diesel fumes are an acquired taste, I suppose, but the new diesels aren't the black-belching monsters of the past. My old Dodge was loud but the new Cummins aren't any noisier than a gas engine and get nearly double the mileage with more torque. The only downside is weight but even that is relative. My wife's grocery getter is a Volksdragon Jetta TDI. It is quiet and smooth running, no smell, gets great mileage and has decent power in a small package.

Daimler-Chrysler is plunking their new Bluetec diesel into their 2007 Grand Cherokee. It'll be interesting to see how that works out.

-Mac

[GregDiesel]

the only Diesel in my Hummer is me...

[HummBebe]

HEY!!!

THE CHIKIN IS BACK!!!


WELCOME BACK

[GregDiesel]

thanks baby

[-=Mac=-]

Originally Posted by GregDiesel

the only Diesel in my Hummer is me...

I didn't know... I've been driving your name around for years and loving every minute of it...

-Mac

[timgco]

WHere's the V8 at? When?

SAVE the deisel for the H2.

[H3PAC]

Originally Posted by f5fstop

They stink

I like it!

[-=Mac=-]

Originally Posted by H3PAC

I like it!

As one of my friends likes to say "You dropped it... you pick it up!!"

-Mac