[SEL] OT PA trip & fuel costs

[Richard Fink Sr]

Peter i can agree with you 100%. I have a friend that has a truck 
with a Renault engine. It is a Mack truck 32000 gross he hauls logs 
with it. He tells me he can average 15 mpg with it. Can't say that 
about any thing built in the states.
R Fink
PA




At 05:31 PM 6/6/2007 +0100, you wrote:
>On 06/06/07, P. Johns <enginepaul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I said before that a friend - who knows his stuff - says diesel is the way
> > to go for now. More efficient diesel engines can be developed now and we
> > don't have to wait years for dream terminology and all the unknowns to come
> > on-line.
> >
>
>GM and Ford both have European companies with highly efficient
>diesels, why they don't introduce them to the USA I have no idea.
>
>Take also the companies like Isuzu, who have a fine range of diesel
>engines, and the two French companies, Renault and Peugeot. All these
>have decent high-output car and truck engines, and at the very top end
>you have Volvo and Scania with up to 550hp truck diesel engines.
>
>Cummins is playing a little catch-up on technology, but they will get there.
>
>Peter
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