mtofell1 wrote:
Thread after thread of modern diesel engine talk is making me really think we are in the dark days of technology (or, more to the point, emission ****). The pre-DPF diesels are largely talked about as the cream of the crop. Pretty sad considering they are now 10 years in the rearview. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?
I feel like 30 years from now the freeways will look like Cuba with a bunch of 2000-2006 Chevy/Dodge diesels rolling around.
Other than the up-front cost of going diesel in general, the DEF systems seem like a pretty decent "light at the end of the tunnel" to me. If not, a good compromise being that the tree huggers aren't going to let you "roll coal" anymore, and that doesn't do diesel any good in the eyes of the public anyway.
At least you're not spraying a gallon of raw fuel into the muffler every few hundred miles.