GM is mulling a diesel engine for the Chevy Cruze while Ford has no intention of importing its killer diesel-powered Ranger. So what about Chrysler? They’re giving the European Grand Cherokee a 3.0 liter diesel engine. Could it come here? Scheduled to be unveiled at the Geneva International Auto Show, the all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee will make its European debut with a 3.0 liter turbo diesel V6 engine. Chrysler will offer two versions of this oil burner; a “detuned” version with 191 horsepower and 324 ft-lbs of torque, while the big daddy version of this diesel engine has a healthy 241 horsepower and 406 ft-lbs of torque. For those of you keeping score at home, this engine blows away both the base 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 (290 horsepower/260 ft-lbs of torque) and the 5.7 liter HEMI (360 horsepower/390 ft-lbs of torque) engine options available on the American version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Oh, and it gets 28 mpg (8.3 liters/100 km) on the combined European driving cycle. The American V6 gets about 20 mpg combined in 2wd form, so even if you account for the differences in the testing procedures, there is still a huge MPG discrepancy here. Oh, and to top it all off this oil burner has Fiats new MultiJetII technology that drastically reduces emissions to just 218 g/km.
Read more: http://gas2.org/2011/02/23/will-the-jeep-grand-cherokee-diesel-come-stateside/
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