I will have you know that I am sitting back in an office chair, not a couch thankyouverymuch

Measurable points: diesels weigh more, have dirtier emissions, generate less horsepower than gasoline engines, are more difficult to work on (higher repair bills), upset the handling of a vehicle (when compared to their lighter gasoline counterparts), are slower then gasoline counterparts, cost more to purchase…

Well, nothing. This article is talking about tractor engines.

I brought up tractor engines, which are what diesels engines are.

Was Kinja even on ARPANET?

bio-diesel is for hippies and LPG is for people that drive over 14,000 miles a year, and the conversions are usually not OEM and you’ve got parking regulations and travel restrictions in certain countries with LPG, but bio-diesel and LPG are not specific engine types, they’re fuel types.

Turbodiesels have better mpg and better torque. A diesel engine without forced induction is a low-stress, low-power, high-emission nightmare. The only way to get power out of a diesel is forced induction, and if we’re doing apples to apples you could do the same with a gasoline engine and still come out with something…

A Honda Accord V6 is quicker, lighter, and has the same top speed at that $50,000 BMW with a tractor engine that you mentioned. I’m still pretty convinced that tractor engines don’t belong in cars.

I agree - a Detroit DD15 in a Freightliner is great.

I have, and BMW still couldn’t convince me that a tractor engine belongs under the hood of their car.

Thrashing your diesel? Do you plow fields with it or split stumps? :3

At least I have a sharp uniform and less emissions.

That Skyline would be lighter without that heavy farm implement engine.

Good. Tractor engines don’t belong in passenger cars.

Doors can’t fall off if they aren’t even there!

Real Jeeps have no doors.

I am amazed that people still fork over cash to Autodromo for cheap shit. $1,100 for a $100 movement in a fixed-lug aluminum and titanium case? Seriously? The cost of the box for that watch is probably more than the movement itself. They must pay their drill press operators a lot of money.

Does the Passat get the DSG?

But I’m on Oppositelock, and I have heard of it.

Nah. I don’t need a Mazdaspeed6, I just need a Mazda6 with another 100hp or so.