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what has urea got to do with oil changes?
“The Cruze station wagon caters to an important market segment. It ticks all the boxes for European drivers in terms of distinctive design, dynamic driving, space and economy,”
Chevy will offer it with a variety of powertrains, including an upgraded 2.0-liter diesel and all-new 1.4-liter gasoline and 1.7-liter diesel engines – those three packages coming with auto stop/start capability.
This engine is not twin turbocharged.Washington Post said:It is the twin-turbocharged, 2-liter in-line four-cylinder VCDi diesel engine
There you go.Put one in a wagon, and we're in.
How true-I could choke the marketing folks at Ford. Not everyone wants a super duty F series.The wagon looks so much better then the hatch. The cruze diesel is the only Chevy I would ever consider owning. I wouldn't be surprised if they found some excuse not to bring it over here though. The US market always gets screwed...
Isn't Cruze one of the top selling models for the 2012 model year? Why not put the diesel engine into their top seller. Much easier than trying to convince the public to purchase the Cruze diesel instead of something that is not moving. Of course, best bang for the buck would be to put one in the C1500.
Wow that article is from August of last year.Chevy is apparently serious about actually bringing the Cruze diesel in 2013. Nice to see another manufacturer get into the ring but odd choice of car for that engine as it would be better in almost any other vehicle they produce except the spark.
http://blogs.insideline.com/straigh...l-testing-with-a-jetta-tdi-in-the-desert.html
Somewhere in between the subsidies and the financial finagling, diesel has gotten the short end of the whip. (Whip... crack... get it?)If they ever get HCCI technology working for GDI engines, diesel's days might be numbered.
Other way. Diesel's b.p. is higher, so it takes more temperature. Gasoline comes off the fractional distillation stack higher up. Boiling point of a compound fraction is inverse to height on the stack. Cracking, to my knowledge, can only shift the balance a few % points.Costs? no idea but if you look at "old" refining processes of just running the crude through a distillation column, diesel comes out fairly early in the process and different grades of gasoline come out at a much higher temperature. I believe that most crude is initially run through the distillation column and the resulting fractions are then run through the cracker to force higher production of more profitable end products.