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The Cherokee Diesel, which they sold in the US for less than a year, uses Mercedes 3.5L Bluetec V-6. The Liberty diesel, which they also cancelled in the US, a 2.8L.
Well our cars don’t resemble a shoe box with rupps 5hp pull starter motor for a power plan… ECO FAG Mobile.
God you suck, it’s an SUV thats very good fuel economy. We don’t all want to drive 5 HP go carts like the fu*king Europeans. This is a great vehicle and I am sad to hear Chrysler discontinued the Diesel version because of the damn emission laws.
good luck
actually….its chrystler…and if theyre on their last leg than why is dodge the only one that actually is sticking to the plan on putting out a 1/2 ton diesel and putting the same engines in the durangos…anyhow how, what would you consider a good mpg rating on an suv????? and ive read many places of these getting 22-26 mpg’s, which again, for an suv is outstanding. any how, fuck european cars and just their whole way of life in general
thats right, jeeps just have more cabin noise vs the mercedes which kinda sucks, but the price is nearly halved.
….does this guy sell cars from home?…his chrysler dealership probably went out of business..
Why are Americans so scared of Diesel?
there not scared its just the american goverment wont let the car companys use diesels engines becauses of amercas stricked emission laws these people have maybe never seen a diesel engine before lol
never seen a diesel? are you serious?
Have you seen American full sized pick ups? International/Navistar built Powerstroke the Duramax and the Cummins motors are all diesel and commonly found in many full sized trucks. Diesel cars aren’t popular because american’s prefer gas engines in normal cars.
umm…. yes we can have diesel engines in our cars. i have an audi a4 3.0 tdi and i bought it in the united states. it was made in germany though. i think ur trying to say we cannot make them here. but we can buy them from outside of the us.
i have never seen a desiel jeep. i would love to own one. desiels can last for like twice the amount of miles for a regular gasoline engine
i want diesel now.
@NJHCRevEdge The Liberty was using VM Motori engine thaugh, an Italian diesel engine coy partly own by detroit diesel.
@Maxzillian I think you need to do your homework; If you run a Diesel engine on gas, you will ruin it. I’ve been driving personal vehicles since 1985 and never heard of Diesel that runs on gaz except for the tractor engine from the 50’s that you would start on gas and switch on diesel.
I agree, that is why I said it’d ruin the injection pump in my original comment. However, the pump aside, the engine will run off of gasoline just fine. Engine timing may need to be tweaked due to the differences in combustion speed between the fuels, however.
Multi fuel engines aren’t very common. The only application I can think of off the top of my head is some military transport trucks.
@Maxzillian : I own a 2004 Golf TDi and a 1984 300D and be driving diesel vehicles since 1985. I drove most of my Volkswagen (6 of the ) my Mercedes ( I am on my 3rd ) and my dielel Land Cruiser over 350,000 to 400,00 km and would never have put gas instead of diesel. You can go up to 50% if you don’t have other fuel but it is better to avoid. With gas, you have less power.
@supertommy33 cars from other countries are expensive most of the time and then you have to pay to get it shipped over to the u.s. And also they do make diesel cars in the us because Mercedes has a car plant in Alabama and also ford gm and chrysler make cars with diesel engines and there made here in the u.s. instead of paying some person in iraq thats going to take our money and do bad things with it
Why don’t they make this car/engine combo anymore?
i know. haha thanks though
I’ve always loved SUVs, what I’ve always hated was the fuel economy one has to expect from SUVs. A diesel engine should be required on SUVs of all sizes.
@Maxzillian: Are you completely retarded? What timing? It’s a DIESEL, you moron. There is no timing. If you run gas in your diesel, I’d pay money to watch it run. I guess knowing nothing about a subject is no reason not to comment, right?
@RuloMelko You mean to tell me that with a diesel engine you can inject the fuel whenever you want and it’ll just run? Is that right? Heck, and all this time companies have been wasting resources developing systems that can inject the fuel more precisely when all this time we could have just been throwing it down the intake manifold!
Fact of the matter is, the fuel must be injected at the correct time of the cycle for the engine to run correctly. If that’s not timing, then please, educate me.
@unimogman404 Absolutely correct on every front. Attempting to run a diesel engine that is not made for multi-fuel on gas can cause serious damage to the engine. Specifically it will cause the injection system to fail due to a lack of lubrication.