No matter what you drive and where it was made- this is just outstanding news!http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nissan-add-diesel-engine-titan-173207715.htmlA 300 horsepower diesel in a Nissan would be just an awesome truck for light duty towing and day to day operation. Heck- it would be a great toad and you would have the whole bed for kayaks, motorcycles, bicycles... whatever!Congrats to Dodge and Nissan! Now go put a diesel in an SUV for the wife to drive!

Nissan is going with the Cummins...that will really help it on it's way.....As stated, now they're are two 1/2 ton trucks getting diesels:)

I'm hoping Dodge puts the 3.0L diesel into the Durango. I would love a 3-row SUV with one as a DD!

Nissan sorely needed something like this to help sales. Hopefully they are beefing up the rest of the truck to get some payload to go with the heavy 5.0 Cummins diesel motor. What diesel is Ram putting in their 1/2 tons? Is it the same 5.0 Cummins? I keep hoping one of these makers will offer a smaller diesel in the 3/4T truck lines. There is really no need for a 6.7L behemoth diesel engine in a 3/4 ton truck to get great towing performance and everyday fuel economy. A 4-5L diesel can do it just fine. I would consider a 3/4T truck with a smaller diesel but have no intention of buying one with 800 ft lbs of torque when it is not needed.

APT wrote:I'm hoping Dodge puts the 3.0L diesel into the Durango. I would love a 3-row SUV with one as a DD!fla-gypsy..it's the 3.0L diesel

APT wrote:I'm hoping Dodge puts the 3.0L diesel into the Durango. I would love a 3-row SUV with one as a DD!Doubtful as the Durnago is gone in 2016.http://www.autoblog.com/2012/06/05/dodge-durango-avenger-models-will-be-discontinued-srt-model-fo/

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Bionic_Man
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
gmcsmoke wrote:
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Got to love the way some people take one component and think it makes a truck. The engine is but one component

congratulations on throwing 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of dodge owners under the bus.

I was thinking the same thing, but about the Chevy. Take away the Duramax or Alison, and you have a rolling ......
jody_h
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Passin Thru wrote:
Just because they raise sppeed limits to 80 does'nt mean you ahve to drive them. I ran a Peterbilt with a 500 HP CAT and 15 spd overdrive from Baltimore to Seattle. I ran 75 when I could from ID to IA and averaged 6 MPG westbound and 7 east bound over a4 year period. Schneider trucking argues that 62 is ideal but if you figure 13 MPH 10 hrs aday, that's 130 miles X 39000 mi X 4 yr thats 156 K X $2/mile and I made more money, had more home time and drove a Large Car instead of a Pumpkin, stripped to bare essentials and trade in value was double.

Why not do the math for say 2 miles per gallon that you would have saved had you drove 62 MPH. I bet it wipes out any "extra" money you think you made.

You are missing the point that we don't need 625 HP engines in pick ups to tow our RV's.

I also know you don't have to run 80 MPH but if everyone else is going 80 and I'm going even 60 I'm now a hazard or that is the excuse the trucking industry used to get the speeds raised for truckers. I used to subscribe to that way of thinking also, would run 70 MPH towing my 39' (total) TT down the highway just so I could get to the campground maybe two hours quicker on our yearly trip to Florida.

Don

When you drive for a company and get paid by the mile it makes a big differnts.
fly-boy
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
I cant speak for today's Dodges because I have not ridden in let alone driven one. However- there is no question the early generation of Dodge trucks with the 5.9 Cummins were only purchased for one reason- the motor.

In a few years it is conceivable that a powerful argument could be made that Cummins (one component) saved Dodge and Nissan trucks. Then again- Why anyone would buy a Dodge or a Nissan (without a Cummins) will always be a mystery to me.
gmcsmoke
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
gmcsmoke wrote:
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Got to love the way some people take one component and think it makes a truck. The engine is but one component

congratulations on throwing 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of dodge owners under the bus.

WTF are you talking about smoke? How is my statement throwing Dodge owners under the bus? Pull you GM out of the garage and stop huffing it's smoke.

Don
Perrysburg_Dodg
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
gmcsmoke wrote:
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Got to love the way some people take one component and think it makes a truck. The engine is but one component

congratulations on throwing 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of dodge owners under the bus.

WTF are you talking about smoke? How is my statement throwing Dodge owners under the bus? Pull you GM out of the garage and stop huffing it's smoke.

Don
Perrysburg_Dodg
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
Passin Thru wrote:
Just because they raise sppeed limits to 80 does'nt mean you ahve to drive them. I ran a Peterbilt with a 500 HP CAT and 15 spd overdrive from Baltimore to Seattle. I ran 75 when I could from ID to IA and averaged 6 MPG westbound and 7 east bound over a4 year period. Schneider trucking argues that 62 is ideal but if you figure 13 MPH 10 hrs aday, that's 130 miles X 39000 mi X 4 yr thats 156 K X $2/mile and I made more money, had more home time and drove a Large Car instead of a Pumpkin, stripped to bare essentials and trade in value was double.

Why not do the math for say 2 miles per gallon that you would have saved had you drove 62 MPH. I bet it wipes out any "extra" money you think you made.

You are missing the point that we don't need 625 HP engines in pick ups to tow our RV's.

I also know you don't have to run 80 MPH but if everyone else is going 80 and I'm going even 60 I'm now a hazard or that is the excuse the trucking industry used to get the speeds raised for truckers. I used to subscribe to that way of thinking also, would run 70 MPH towing my 39' (total) TT down the highway just so I could get to the campground maybe two hours quicker on our yearly trip to Florida.

Don
gmcsmoke
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Got to love the way some people take one component and think it makes a truck. The engine is but one component

congratulations on throwing 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of dodge owners under the bus.
Passin_Thru
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
Just because they raise sppeed limits to 80 does'nt mean you ahve to drive them. I ran a Peterbilt with a 500 HP CAT and 15 spd overdrive from Baltimore to Seattle. I ran 75 when I could from ID to IA and averaged 6 MPG westbound and 7 east bound over a4 year period. Schneider trucking argues that 62 is ideal but if you figure 13 MPH 10 hrs aday, that's 130 miles X 39000 mi X 4 yr thats 156 K X $2/mile and I made more money, had more home time and drove a Large Car instead of a Pumpkin, stripped to bare essentials and trade in value was double.
Bedlam
Moderator
Aug 26, 2013
You would have been surprised what my little 59HP Perkins with 5-speed could haul in my old Mazda. I was pulling a Scamp BP all over the Sierra Nevada's and could keep up with traffic (although acceleration was at a glacial pace without a turbo). It even had a 400 mile range when towing and 500 miles unladen on a 17 gallon tank.
Perrysburg_Dodg
Explorer
Aug 26, 2013
Got to love the way some people take one component and think it makes a truck. The engine is but one component without the other components you has a worthless chunk on cast iron.

As far as this country goes we still are not paying what everyone else is paying for fuel. So we don't seem to care if our vehicles get crappy fuel mileage. We just want to get to the camp ground faster then the other guy! Want this backed up with facts OK then.

1: Speed limits are being raised across the nation. Mich wants to raise it's speed limit to 80 miles per hour! :E Never mind they have some of the crappiest roads around!

2: The EPA keeps adding fuel robbing emissions to engines to clean the air. Wrong again, robbing Peter to pay Paul. You burn more fuel so in turn more fuel needs to be processed causing even more pollution not only to the air but to the land and water!

3: The Auto industry keeps upping HP ratings causing mileage to suffer. Think if they put an 8 speed in my truck what the fuel mileage would be! I can make 27-28 all day long empty on the highway. Tuck in behind a big truck at 60 MPH and I'm over 30 MPG add a tail wind and 32MPG. Add a 8 speed and I bet it would run 35 MPG on it's own. I had a 1998 Jetta TDi that would make 42 MPG with diesel costing less then a buck a gallon!

Being first over the Eisenhower pass is the reason people want to have 625 HP and 810 TQ in a truck towing a 15,000# trailer. Not being able to tow a load.

Look up the specs of the average OTR tractor and see what it has for HP and TQ moving loads of 30,000,40,000 and up to 80,000#. Nothing near what these little pickups have!

But hay as long as yours is bigger then mine right?

Don

NOTE: My truck is a pre emissions truck, 2WD, 3:77 final gear ratio. In other words a MPG KING

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