Diesel Chevrolet Cruze coming to U.S. in 2013

[Kennyray]

The Olds 350 Diesel

 

[nubuilder]

I know of some people who had trouble with the GM diesel cars in the 80's.

I hate to say it, but GM's diesels in the 80's is a major influence as to why diesels are not popular in the USA today!

Weren't the early diesels just a gas engine block with cranked up compression?

I have no experience with the 80's diesels in cars, but I've hear horror stories from my parents who knew people with them.

My boss seems to be set on buying a TDI diesel in his next car. I told him about this coming in 2013, but he said he wants to get a car next year.

 

[onac255]

tune it to 200 hp and 400 ft lb of tq and that will be awesome plus get crazy mpg

I wonder how hard i would be to get rid of the DPF/Regen/Urea on the chevy cruze...

 

[NMRam]

tune it to 200 hp and 400 ft lb of tq and that will be awesome plus get crazy mpg

I wonder how hard i would be to get rid of the DPF/Regen/Urea on the chevy cruze...

A hacksaw and some black tape to cover up the lights on the dash?

 

[onac255]

tune it to 200 hp and 400 ft lb of tq and that will be awesome plus get crazy mpg

I wonder how hard i would be to get rid of the DPF/Regen/Urea on the chevy cruze...

A hacksaw and some black tape to cover up the lights on the dash?

I like the way you think

 

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Weren't the early diesels just a gas engine block with cranked up compression?

I assume you're considering early GM diesels... There is a lot of legends about these engines, but one is that they were developed to be made following some modular production concepts, sharing some tooling from gasser engines, but had a block developed specially for them. Their bore and stroke is not the same as the Chevy 350cu.in. small-block as some people think, for example...