Orion ZyGarian
09-15-2006, 09:52 PM
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3012/is_1_185/ai_n9525628
http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/A_2544/article.html
Okay, start oogling and dropping your jaws. Go ahead and make your eyes swell up to the size of dinner plates. I'm 90% certain we'll start seeing this engine in the X3 and/or X5 for the new generations of each. Where VW has turned a blind (brown?) eye to trying to adapt their TDi diesels to our uberstrict new "ultra low sulfur content diesel fuel", Mercedes-Benz has gone full charge, making all of their diesels we've gotten lately continue to be availible. Starting in 2007, VW will no longer export diesels to the U.S. (IIRC, their sulfur content can be as much as 50 ppm, whereas our new standards only alow 15 ppm...our current diesel fuel is something like 500+ ppm)
That also includes the PowerJoke Ford and International spent so much R&D on..making a brand new engine for 05 and 06 only (which had nothing but problems anyways). Cummins will also have a new I6 diesel, and no doubt a new Duramax will follow as well. In North America however, only domestic brands have been the real major diesel engine sellers, with the rare occasional Merc-Benz CDI or VW TDi poping up here and there.
Well I have second hand, very reliable knowledge that this will soon change. Since I'm part time I'm not qualified to go to BMW chassis training, however my mentor came back from a BMW factory class a month or two ago (seeing the 335i before everyone else as well with the other technicians in that class) and told me that they were also preparing...a DIESEL CLASS for the new X!
I of course was extatic to hear this, being a HUGE fan of turbochargers, mileage efficienty, and also torque, I therefore instantly became a diesel fan. Problem is, its so hard to get passenger cars with diesel engines over here that it is a lost cause. Now with a completely different type of fuel required nationwide, I knew that we'd most definetely getting more diesels; until I found out that our new "ULSD fuel" was so strict that it made European diesel look dirty, that it might actually pose an even bigger problem to the release of European diesels stateside.
Therefore I was nothing but excited to hear we'd finally get some BMW diesel engines. Chances are, the engine they are developing for our market would be their brand new 3.0TT diesel engine (I thought it was interesting BMW came out with both a 3.0TT gas and diesel engines at practically the same time) with TWO different sized variable geometry turbochargers, and even in sequential setup. Surely this technology shall make it over hear by mid-2007 at the latest!
http://autospeed.drive.com.au/cms/A_2544/article.html
Okay, start oogling and dropping your jaws. Go ahead and make your eyes swell up to the size of dinner plates. I'm 90% certain we'll start seeing this engine in the X3 and/or X5 for the new generations of each. Where VW has turned a blind (brown?) eye to trying to adapt their TDi diesels to our uberstrict new "ultra low sulfur content diesel fuel", Mercedes-Benz has gone full charge, making all of their diesels we've gotten lately continue to be availible. Starting in 2007, VW will no longer export diesels to the U.S. (IIRC, their sulfur content can be as much as 50 ppm, whereas our new standards only alow 15 ppm...our current diesel fuel is something like 500+ ppm)
That also includes the PowerJoke Ford and International spent so much R&D on..making a brand new engine for 05 and 06 only (which had nothing but problems anyways). Cummins will also have a new I6 diesel, and no doubt a new Duramax will follow as well. In North America however, only domestic brands have been the real major diesel engine sellers, with the rare occasional Merc-Benz CDI or VW TDi poping up here and there.
Well I have second hand, very reliable knowledge that this will soon change. Since I'm part time I'm not qualified to go to BMW chassis training, however my mentor came back from a BMW factory class a month or two ago (seeing the 335i before everyone else as well with the other technicians in that class) and told me that they were also preparing...a DIESEL CLASS for the new X!
I of course was extatic to hear this, being a HUGE fan of turbochargers, mileage efficienty, and also torque, I therefore instantly became a diesel fan. Problem is, its so hard to get passenger cars with diesel engines over here that it is a lost cause. Now with a completely different type of fuel required nationwide, I knew that we'd most definetely getting more diesels; until I found out that our new "ULSD fuel" was so strict that it made European diesel look dirty, that it might actually pose an even bigger problem to the release of European diesels stateside.
Therefore I was nothing but excited to hear we'd finally get some BMW diesel engines. Chances are, the engine they are developing for our market would be their brand new 3.0TT diesel engine (I thought it was interesting BMW came out with both a 3.0TT gas and diesel engines at practically the same time) with TWO different sized variable geometry turbochargers, and even in sequential setup. Surely this technology shall make it over hear by mid-2007 at the latest!