Yes, they could do with diesels, Ken. But if the machines in the UK
are anything to go by they could do with employing someone to design a
better looking vehicle. The latest I've seen in the UK is the
"Patriot" which looks like a practice by a 1st-year design student.
I know I've said it before, but these things look appalling ...
Chris
On 1 Oct 2009, at 16:40, Ken Norton wrote:
> Oh, now that is something that absolutely fries my goat. I want a
> Jeep with
> the diesel engine in it. The CRD works great everywhere else in the
> world,
> but the one and only time they brought it into the USA it resulted
> in 100%
> transmission failures.
>
> Why did it work on Euro version but not the USA version? Automatic
> transmissions. Here in the USA you can't buy a Jeep with a manual
> transmission and the automatics couldn't handle the torque.
>
> IDIOTS!
>
> It's this type of lunacy that makes me have absolutely no sympathy for
> Chrysler or GM.
>
> Meanwhile GM is screwing around with that loser "Volt" when they could
> achieve similar efficiencies with a decent little diesel.
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