Detroit Diesel unveils SUV- specific engine

摘要

The outlandish popularity of pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles in the U.S. prompted the world's largest independent automotive diesel engine producer to design and build a powerplant made specifically for those vehicles. "This is not a gasoline-dieselized engine," Charles Freese, director of automotive sales at Detroit Diesel Corp., said,. adding, "no engine exists in this classification today." Freese, former chief engineer for the DELTA (Diesel Engine Light Truck Application) program, said, "We couldn't use a derivative of another engine because of the unique duty The 24-valve, turbocharged, intercooled direct-injection diesel engine (producing 157 kW, or 210 hp, at 4000 rpm) arrived 228 days after its conception.