The UAW could be a force for good (and they do some good things for sure, but overall I would give them a negative) if they focused on keeping good people and quickly ridding their ranks of the lazy and terrible. Just like some police forces, the protection of everyone is also at the expense of everyone. A good union…

Perfectly stated.

Jurassic Park is the only movie to ever give me a repeat nightmare. To be fair, I was a kid, but I still remember parts of those nightmares 20+ years later.

Have you driven a modern full size pickup? They’re no more difficult to drive than a CUV. They handle quite well overall. Parking is probably the toughest thing to adjust to.

The mom of one of my best friends in HS had one of these. I remember thinking it was fast (was the SC’d one).

I heard your opinion, considered it, and determined it to be wrong.

Yes, and since it’s developing its peak torque that early, it will certainly use a lot of fuel. If it’s direct injected, they’ll need to run richer than stoich nearly all the time to cool the injectors, so more than required to produce a similar output to a larger, NA engine. The place where smaller, turbo engines…

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Yes.

Point:

I’m totally with you on all that...but IMO that should be in a truck that’s smaller than the current Colorado (which is too big to be a small truck). The folks who’ve bought the 2.5L I4 in that truck and the 3.6 V6 get pretty much the same fuel economy...

No, it’s never that simple, but the point remains. 3.0 diesels are stump pullers and diesels can and do run significantly leaner than stoich when heavy load isn’t commanded. They can sip in ways that gasoline turbo engines cannot.

Odds are likely more than yours? I’ll be happy to be proven wrong via some really ingenious solutions by GM, but I doubt it.

I like your optimism, but I have lived this on the engineering side. The only way people will get near the label with small turbo engines in large vehicles is driving in a way that many consider a hazard. Again, it’s much easier in a car because F=ma. On the highway it’ll be better. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if GMs…

Right, so that means in a truck, it’ll get poor real world fuel economy as it’ll always be in boost. This engine was made to do awesome on the EPA test cycles, nothing more.

You can still hear them plenty inside the truck.

Which means in a truck, it’ll get poor real world fuel economy as it’ll always be in boost.

Which means in a truck, it’ll get poor real world fuel economy as it’ll always be in boost.

Yes they do, my point is that if you take the turbos away (aren’t in boost), the truck will still get around ok. An inline four? Mmmm, nope. Not in a modern half ton.