OK, all you truck wonks...
... answer me this. Why are diesel engines only available in F250s, 2500, etc.? Why can't they be put into the smaller F150s and 1500s? (I know about the payload deficiencies of the 1500, so tha...
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RobertRyan wrote:romore wrote:
The sales numbers for diesel cars and light duty trucks are too low in North America. For years gas was cheap and readily available, we wanted the lower cost and high performance the engines offered. Diesel was seen as expensive, dirty, noisy, and slow.
It has always been popular in other countries because gasoline was very expensive and in many cases the quality was sketchy at best. They also didn't have the big heavy vehicles we were accustomed to.
No you have a little bit the wrong way around. Diesel fuel generally is more expensive, than Gas(Petrol) , but has better mileage and torque characteristics
Actually they have a lot of of even heavier vehicles,but cars are the same size or smaller. The mix of vehicles is very different and RV's are smaller
I believe he was speaking historically. Up till the early 90's, diesels were very unpopular in "less than dumptruck" size vehicles in the states. Because of the reasons listed, slow, stinky, pricy, loud, etc. Did I mention slow? The pre-turbo diesels were so slow you could get outrun by a pedestrian in house slippers. There were diesels offered in the states during the 80's, everything from Mercedes Benz to Rangers, but they were extremely unpopular, so they were discontinued. Gasoline was so cheap that nobody was willing deal with the tradeoffs of the diesel.
