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Lol… Tha’ts not a Diesel fueled ducati. It’s a ducati with a diesel package, as in the cologne company
You are correct and this did cross my mind. Doing the math even with the premium cost on diesel fuel factored in at 18k per year mileage, the diesel will cost about $500 less than the gas version per year. Now the diesel has about a $1300 premium over the gas version (jetta sportwagens) so it will cover itself in a couple years. Is it a huge win… no, not really, but I will also take into account the resale/trade in value of the diesel down the road. People are crackheads with used diesel pricing now days. Personally its our first diesel and as a package the Jetta sportwagen with pano sunroof and nav was really a decent value compared to some of the SUV prices we were looking at again. I was happy to have the wife actually really like the wagon, was not sure if she was going to go for it or not. She is happy as shit only have to put fuel in 2-3 times per month only vs. here old suv at 2 times per week lol.
On a side note* It would be cool if we could get a toyota tacoma (Hilux) diesel in the future, then I would make it look like this lol:
Now how about quality? I know with diesel trucks, they go hundreds of thousands of miles without major issues. Is this just with trucks again for being beefed up for hauling, or are diesel engines in general just a much stronger/solid built engine?
WTF, I over read it and assumed ducati wouldn’t make some fggt package like that. Someplace someone did swap a small diesel motor into an old sport bike and I thought it was a duc.
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Apparently the Race Car puts down about 400hp. (2.2l diesel)
I got to stop in sometime and check this out. How do the body lines look in person? I mean I see it looks more sporty than the last model.
Ive put silly miles on my TDI’s and because the motors are low reving, and dont have enough power to hurt them self the motor itself will generally last longer. the downfall is that its still a car, so things like brakes and wheel bearings, struts, clutchs, trans, axles… all still have the same life as a gasser version. just generally because diesels have high resale, and are harder to find its generally worth fixing instead of just trying to replace, thats often why you see alot more miles on them. plus the math really makes it worth it if you drive alot. when i was doing between 50k-75k a year my diesel was worth its weight in gold.
But some of the newer tdi’s do have there issues. I know the 04-05 Passat diesels where horrible engines. getting maybe 200k before failing. Im curious to see how well the mazda diesel holds up.
Definitely come check it out. The car is quite nice to look at
And another of the diesel GrandAm racer campaigned by SpeedSource
x2 :tup:
My understanding of this is that it is entirely political. weren’t you not able to buy a VW TDI in California or NY state for a long while?
We’ve always had diesel VW’s up here and Europe is flooded with them. I swear we discussed this before that there was some phony BS keeping diesel from the American marketplace for a variety of tin-foil hat reasons.
I would buy a diesel truck if more tops had diesel. I think the only one is in lewiston. I usually average 1 free fill up a period so doesnt make sense to spend an extra 120 a mo to have a diesel if i dont really need one
I think a compact diesel tuck like the size of a tacoma or S10 is where it would make sense.
Pretty much.
They weren’t sold in Cali and Nys because of “emissions” for a while.
I would like to see more diesel stuff, way more fun than a hybrid and equal or better MPG’s. it’s cool to see Mazda taking a stab at it in the US market. VW is the only other company with an affordable diesel that I can think of. Well the Audi a3 too I guess but that’s a little more $$.
Apparently the car is a rolling roadblock from this weekends testing at the Roar at the 24hr (Daytona)… And rumored to have blown up a motor also.
But if anyone car whip this platform into shape Speedsource can.
I would ABSOLUTELY buy a compact diesel truck…not a GM though. I would LOVE the new F100 to be available with a diesel and a manual trans.
I’m curious to hear about this report and how it did.
This car really is peaking my interest. Never really looked into a Diesel car, but this one looks fantastic with the body lines they decided to choose for it. Something about the front end just finally looks right and not the stupid smile the cars had the past generation.