We smell a trademark fight
This Autoweek article gave me a college flashback: when UT Austin’s Petroleum Engineers offered me a scholarship, but the Mechanical Engineers said no dice. Mostly because high tech, high mileage oil talk is rather boring. Much like discussing a cutting edge, long-life coolant before the Dex-Cool fiasco. So let’s open a can of worms for the Best and Brightest, and hit the high points of General Motor’s Dexos1, a somewhat revolutionary engine oil with a distinct lack of testing from the American Petroleum Institute. As per Autoweek, matters stand like this: (Read More…)
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Summicron - It’s been edited, right Derek? Note to self: save a copy of the original next time.
Summicron - How ’bout diesel costing more, too? You’re certainly right about TTAC not being the forum to show concern for this.
gearhead77 - Kind of, but aircraft manufacturers still ship out slightly new designs/ideas and let the operators figure out if it will work. The referenced 787 is a good example of...
arun - Darnit! Beat me to it!
Summicron - Exactly…. some French word that means bloody, slow and fly-infested but good enough for infantry.
niky - Ford uses PSA units in their European cars, and they have a nifty new inline-five diesel (3.2, just under 200 hp, but waffleloads of torque) in the Ranger...
redav - “The only disdain of diesel here in the US is the LACK of diesels available in the US” I disagree. The US has a lot more people than those who post...
Doug DeMuro - “except for Doug who’s used to driving rolling monstrosities like the Panamera.” Literally laughed out loud. So true.
jmo - “248 lb-ft @ 4700 rpm is 222 hp. 269 lb-ft @ 1750 rpm is 90 hp.” You’re using the wrong metric – compare both engines at 1750 rpm and...
mulled whine - In keeping with the named of other Mitsubishi products on these shores, it should therefore be named the ‘Outrage’.