Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:23:44 -0600
Reply-To: mcneely4@COX.NET
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: New diesel from VW
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Just yesterday I was on my daily walk and passed by a giant diesel pickup parked by the curb with a big "camping" trailer (portable house) behind it. The engine was running. An hour later I passed it again. Still there, still running.
I know that diesel engines in the old days were hard to start, took a good long while to heat up, and ran inefficiently until fully hot. But that isn't true now, is it? Aren't automotive diesel engines supposed to fire right up and be driven away immediately, like gasoline engines?
mcneely
---- "SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
> diesels might be outlawed ????
> that is fantastic news !!!
>
> ( wouldn't be so bad if people would shut the damn things off ! )
>
> lol..where I am diesel fuel is almost 5 dollars a gallon.
> and fortunately not many diesel cars.
>
>
> On 11/17/2014 8:33 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
> > When diesels are outlawed, only outlaws will have diesels.
> >
> > Outlaw Jim
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> If Obama came out in favor of the English system, we'd have metric in a
> >> Heartbeat.....If Obama said diesels should be regulated, we would have them
> >> in all our vehicles, just like the rest of the world...
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> ---- "Chris S." <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >>>> I would love to see an affordable TDI in my Vanagon. Wait, what is that
> >>> spooling woosh sound? Ah, that's sound of the V8 becoming obsolete.
> >>>> Word is that we will see this engine stateside as soon as the metric
> >>> system is adopted as the US standard.
> >>>
> >>> Well, that's not going to happen. Don't you know that the metric system
> >>> is a part of the socialist takeover plan for the U.S.? lol
> >>>
> >>>> Chris.
> >>>>
> >>>> Wysłane z iPhone'a
> >>>>
> >>>> Dnia Nov 16, 2014 o godz. 22:52 John Rodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
> >>> napisał(a):
> >>>>> A new 2.0 L four cyl 269 hp engine has just been shown by VW. And the
> >>> thing
> >>>>> gets 40-50 mpg.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thats all i can tell you right now. Saw a picture of it an its little
> >>>>> monster .
> >>>>>
> >>>>> John
> >>> --
> >>> David McNeely
> >>>
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David McNeely
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