Is there a deisel Accord/CRV in your future

[xcel]

Hi Inspector1:

___The problem is that the new LEV-2 specs in CA. and the Federal Tier II/Bin 5 standards for passenger cars. They are so low as to make most if not all Diesel passenger cars out of Europe unfit to drive in the US by 07. A single DPF or advanced NOx/SCR CAT won’t do the trick. It is extremely high common rail pressures, multiple pre/post injections, extremely refined injection pulses and movement, and the 2 types of after treatments working in concert that will make it work. Ford has it down pat although they cannot get by the EPA’s 120K mandate that I know about? MB’s has a UREA injection solution that will meet Tier II/Bin 5. Toyota is working feverishly to meet the new US specs with their own D-CAT’s in Europe. The missing link is Honda. They have created what is arguably one of the best CI-ICE’s ever designed but their emissions are nothing to write home about and to make it here in the states, they will need a huge leap in emissions technology over what they have produced to date. What I suspect is that the Direct Injection technology will become their saving grace here in the states first thus relieving them of an immediate need for some whiz bang emissions technology to tame their own diesels. At least they have the most FE non-diesel fleet here in the US but with diesels, they are just in the game, not on top of it.

___Good Luck

___Wayne R. Gerdes

[according2me]

It may actually be here in 2010.

http://blogs.automotive.com/6206581/...sel/index.html

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9712548-7.html

Once again, when fuel prices soar, Honda already has a power plant ready to meet the need. It's this forward thinking that gave them a big boost in the mid 70's also. Way to go Honda!!! Bring it on.

They're supposedly building a V6 deisel for the larger vehicles also.

[stevencrosbie]

YES. My next vehicle is a diesel. If not Honda than someone else.

From the rumor on the streets, Toyota might put a diesel in the Tundra and GM is putting a 4.9L diesel in their Silervado 1500.


If that is the case, I can see myself jumping ship.

[according2me]

Who's deisel is GM using. Isuzu???

[stevencrosbie]

Yup. Just like the Duramax, it will be an Isuzu diesel.