2020 Chevy Duramax 3.0 Diesel
The Chevy 3.0 Duramax has been delayed due to the EPA which is a shame, but not surprising. Also not a fan of the timing chain installed on the rear of the engine. Link
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JIMMY034 wrote:Grit dog wrote:Bionic Man wrote:
I hope they put it in a Burb/Yukon XL. With proper cooling capabilities.......
Bingo!
And if GM want's to really blow away the competition, bring on the HD Duraburb for real!
It's time. I'm still astounded that, in the market we're in right now and the fact that 90% of the HD SUVs are now old clapped out piles of ____ that GM or Ford, or even Ram hasn't put out a HD suv again.
Would make half of the bitsching about weight ratings and towing capacities on forums like this go poof and disappear!
Very good point, except that there simply is not a market for HD SUV's. Sure WE who pull big campers want them, but people who own an RV are actually something like less than 6% of the population. When you figure how many different brands there are, and how many different types of vehicles there are, it would only be something like 1% to 2% of the population even wanting one, then out of them...only half could afford it. It's simply market demand. That's my theory anyway.
There is likely something to that, Ford was the last to leave that HD SUV market with the diesel available Excursion. Perhaps the national economy at the time played a part in its demise, maybe that is different now. However add 9K for the diesel option on a HD Suburban and that is a price tag few families could afford, even in today's more favorable economic climate. As the new crop of gas engines from Ford and GM is about to release maybe that would be a more reasonable option in a 3/4 SUV. I don't know what it takes to put a HD drivetrain under a full size SUV, but I imagine it would be expensive enough to require a healthy take rate. Putting Ford or GMs new LD diesel in a 1500 based SUV seems much more likely. However tow ratings will be less than a pickup since the overall chassis will be heavier. However if you could get to a 10K tow rating (which is just above GM's 3.0L pickup rating) with enough capacity for a decent tongue weight you would likely cover the majority of bumper pull RVs and horse trailers in use. It would also get good enough MPG that it would be easy to justify filling the role of the average (but financially successful) soccer mom.
