http://www.media.chrysler.com/newsrelease.do;jsessionid=83535F17604AC76AD5C8C978253FC953?&id=13869&mid=2

Anyone have any experience with VM Motori diesels? Know anything about the A630 ( http://www.vmmotori.it/en/01/00/01/dettaglio.jsp?id=9)?

http://www.allpar.com/mopar/V6/VM-RA-diesel.html



http://www.dieselpowermag.com/tech/1208dp_banks_vm_motori_630t_v6_diesel_engine/ (page isn't coming up properly for me, maybe it'll be fixed soon)

If they make a 4x4, I may just hold off on picking up a quarter-ton pickup and put that cash into a down-payment. Chrysler isn't new to diesel trucks and given the success of the 2013 Ram 1500 I'm a little less concerned about buying the first generation model. Now it's just getting over my distaste for buying new.

What say ye?


[Edited on February 14, 2013 at 9:11 PM. Reason : linkfeast]

2/14/2013 8:54:30 PM

need a diesel in a dakota or tacoma

2/14/2013 9:08:26 PM

agreed

2/14/2013 9:17:18 PM

^^all they gotta do is import the toyota

2/14/2013 9:19:16 PM

i will eat my fucking hat if they do

2/14/2013 9:29:23 PM

I would literally kill one of my lesser aqcuaintences for a 4cyl TD hilux

2/14/2013 10:17:49 PM

http://www.dieselpowermag.com/tech/1208dp_banks_vm_motori_630t_v6_diesel_engine/

You have to use Internet Explorer. The same publisher runs all the automotive magazines, and their websites are stuck in 2002.

VM's been providing diesels in Chrysler vehicles for 20 years, and AMC vehicles before that. Cherokees, Wranglers, Minivans, you name it. Just not in America. Americans don't buy diesels.

[Edited on February 14, 2013 at 11:32 PM. Reason : .]

2/14/2013 11:28:32 PM

yeah, I met a guy last year that took me for spin in his Jeep with the same motor...had no idea before that they even existed in US

2/15/2013 12:13:12 AM

I wish this was the cummins 2.7L 6cyl in the sprinter
if it's cheap enough and doesn't drive like drive shitty like the big boy rams, I'll consider it

2/15/2013 4:03:39 AM

^NOT A CUMMINS

IT'S A DAIMLER MOTOR!!!!!!!!!111111OOONNEEEEEE

2/15/2013 8:12:56 AM

The Jeep Liberty CRD is a VM Motori, only made from 2005-2006. I've been looking into them a little recently and people seem to be pretty high on the motor (its the rest of the vehicle that's questionable.) Lots of people claiming low 30s mpg on the highway, oh yeah and 300 lb/ft at 2000 rpm.

2/15/2013 8:56:25 AM

MSRP @ $50k?

2/16/2013 9:06:44 AM

^way too high of a guess

2/16/2013 5:26:30 PM

MSRP of $30k is my bid

2/16/2013 6:21:22 PM

^ditto.

the damned gas v6 & 8-speed auto are FUCKING UPGRADE OPTIONS, YOU BELIEVE THAT SHIT

I looked the other day, the 4.7v8 & 4sp auto are base options!

[Edited on February 18, 2013 at 7:51 AM. Reason : -]

2/18/2013 7:51:50 AM

what does a $30k new car translate to in monthly payments these days for someone with pretty decent credit

2/18/2013 8:22:20 PM

not to derail the thread, but I found some great NSFW anime porn here:

http://www.trucktrend.com/future/concepts/163_0802_custom_toyota_tundra_hd/viewall.html

2/18/2013 8:30:25 PM

the shifter on that thing is quite possibly the funniest thing that I have seen today....it just looks way out of place in that interior.

2/18/2013 9:52:51 PM

$500 or so paerabol, with a very small down payment.

2/18/2013 10:42:52 PM

^^ hahaha hadn't noticed that...looks like a fuckin hi/lo

^what're the going interest rates for auto loans now? haven't taken any non-academic loans since the big bust

2/19/2013 12:37:40 AM

very low.

2.9 to 4.9% seems fairly common.

2/19/2013 1:00:28 AM

1.5% @ http://www.penfed.org

2/20/2013 7:51:16 AM

i like how 'yota still uses 3rd member type axles since they ripped them off from ford in the 60s. But ford is too fucking cheap to keep making them.

2/20/2013 7:54:05 AM

To me, that looks like a ford rear axle in a toyota, to me.....


Dana S110 is my guess. i could be wrong, of course....

2/20/2013 11:14:51 AM