Comments on: 35 MPG: Why Wait Until 2020?

By: David Chandler

David Chandler — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:44:14 +0000

I personally think that the reason that Diesels are not made available to Us, is due to keeping us buying their gas cars. They do not last as long as diesel cars therefore we must buy another. Plus we spend more on gas, to run our cars. It all amounts to GREED.

By: 35.5 MPG by 2016? Bring it On!

35.5 MPG by 2016? Bring it On! — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:47:13 +0000

[...] in March of 2008, MPGomatic opened some eyeballs and raised a lot of eyebrows when we published 35 MPG: Why Wait Until 2020, an article that provided details on the export-only fuel-efficient diesel-powered cars and SUVs [...]

By: mpg-o-editor

mpg-o-editor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:54:19 +0000

@Akhenaten – Turbines? Great stuff! Lets not forget Andy Granatelli’s turbine-powered STP Oil Treatment Special Indy car … it was wicked cool …

By: AKHENATEN

AKHENATEN — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:43:35 +0000

Chrysler had a Turbine Engine way back in 1962 the thing ran on hair tonic, nailpolish remover almost any thing that you could burn in liquid form… it got decent fuel mileage and had 1/3 fewer moving parts than the infernal combustion engine.. so where is it today.. the Federal Government uses it in the M -1 A -1 TANK… the big drawback was the heat from it’s exhaust… they used a regenerator to recycle the heat and aid combustion… this is the engine of the future… complete burn of fuel… no water vapor.. screw the BIG THREE…. everybody buy a TANK…

AKHENATEN

By: Chrysler 300 Gas Mileage

Chrysler 300 Gas Mileage — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:27:56 +0000

[...] Jeep sells the Grand Cherokee CRD with the same engine here in the States, Chrysler has never sold a diesel-engined Chrysler 300 domestically. This is truly unfortunate, as the turbo-diesel 300 is capable of highway mileage in [...]

By: LSN

LSN — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:08:13 +0000

I’d love to own an AWD Diesel Dodge Caliber w/ 6-speed… dreaming, I know. The 2010 Dodge EV may be my next new car. Hopefully, that isn’t a dream!

By: Senator Corker Goes to Detroit

Senator Corker Goes to Detroit — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:13:24 +0000

[...] pollution standards, channeling what yours truly wrote way back when with the infamous MPGomatic Chrysler diesel [...]

By: Luzney

Luzney — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:59:12 +0000

Why can’t Detroit imitate Brazil? Ethanol has been there for over thirty five years. I lived there for five years and both two cars. I had a choice of pure gas, half ethanol and half gas, or just ethanol with a very little bit of gas. They all work fine.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:49:08 +0000

Rules and facts,
1. People, Learn before you speak, it WILL show.

2. Diesels of today are not you fathers Olds 5.7D that spewed out blue smoke and garbage into the air.

3. Look at the chrysler 300, it produces almost as much Torque as the HEMI version and gets 50% mpgs, and boys and girls Torque is what moves weight.

4. Who cares if you have a 1995 mazda/honda that gets 35mpg it still isnt the SIZE of a Crysler 300.

5. 12 second 0-60 maybe slow or “dangerous” to “Your” standards but to me thats way faster than an old F150 with the 4.9L I6, and the speed limit is well posted!

6. The gas powered cars in America are actually de-tuned (run rich) to make the emission system work properly so your Catlyst will “change” one bad pollution into another.

7. If there is no market here, why is VW selling them site unseen, and for $5,000 more than the gasser?

8. A V10 Ford Excursion gets an ULEV rating in CA but the 06 VW TDI was Limited? the TDI burns 1/5th the fuel! Pollution per mile makes more sense.

9. The reason China and the rest of the world, has crappy air, Their industries and factories have no emission standards.

10. CA must be backwards, in my little town in MN we have 5 gas stations and only 1 does not have Diesel.

11. The 2009 non hybrid car with the most city/hwy mpgs is the Toyota Yaris 29/35, the Diesel Minivan gets 20/35 its huge comparitively, as is the 300 @ 25/35.
The ONLY other non-hybrid that beats the Yaris in the USA is guess what a VW TDI Jetta, and incase you didnt notice its bigger than the yaris too.

12. Hybrids are a dream, they only improve the fuel economy in the city, at the expense of recycleing a battery every XXX miles which is worse on the enviroment than a Diesel. also you dont need to be an electrical engineer to fix a diesel.

13. Plug in hybrids are even more of a joke, I live in MN and people are too damned lazy to plug in their car 20 times a year due to sub-zero weather, who is going to plug in their car every night, when they are carrying their lunchbox and the Mail, and the bag of goodies from the Quick-E-Mart.

14. E10, E85, and Hybrids are only popular in the US….I wonder why…Uncle Sam has control over everything.

15. Thank you, for writing this, I had no Idea we were building those Diesels here, Kinda makes you want to bring one home, “One Piece At A Time” as Mr. Cash said.

I will check back to see how this is doing later.

By: Kevin Wright

Kevin Wright — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:05:16 +0000

Ove (#29) said “The American car companies just don’t want to make it available to us here!”

Car companies are huge companies whose main goals are to make money, right? Then if they KNEW HOW to make better cars, and if they were ALLOWED TO sell better cars, and if people WANTED TO buy better cars, then why wouldn’t they sell them? Wouldn’t they make more money? Don’t worry, they would.

There’s a combination of 4 possible answers:
1. They don’t know to make better cars
2. They aren’t allowed to (as this article suggests)
3. There isn’t a market for them (or they mis-calculated the market)
4. It’s a conpiracy — They are conspiring with evil forces to lose money and go bankrupt on purpose, while they could have become rich and powerful instead.

You can choose for yourself, but I think the whole car-company problem we’re seeing is likely a combination of numbers 1 through 3.