On or around Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:49:56 +0000 (UTC), "Badger"
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>I doubt if even the sport would take on a V10 Toerag, it's an awesome
>package. Pity it's not a landrover product......
really, it's a pity that LR didn't get on the diesel thing better and
sooner. There's a long history of LR not keeping up in diesel
technology/performance. The TDi was a fine engine but at least 5 years too
late, realistically, 10 years too late is not overstating the case, and it's
till not really big enough. a 5-cylinder TDi with about 3-and-a-bit litres
would have been a very good eninge indeed...
At the same time that other makers were supplying big diesels with enough
grunt to cruise at 60 with a 2-ton trailer, LR were still supplying the 2.5
TDi which although it provides plenty of power for any foreseeable purpose,
even in 2-ton vechiles like the disco, nevertheless leaves you going down
the box and doing 35 mph on motorway hills with a heavy trailer, which puts
people off. I've towed 3 tons with our 300 TDi, and it does it fine. But
on any sort of hill, you just end up going slowly. And that's a
reaonably-sorted one, which is capable, solo and on a suitable road (or was
last time I tried) of indicating 100 mph.
The TD5 is good, too, but is still too small, and has the lack of low-end
torque to count against it as well. If they'd based the not-built TD4 on a
2.5 capaicty as per the Tdi, then the TD5 would have been about 3.1 and the
proposed TD6 would have come out at about 3.8 - and as a result, you'd have
had power to spare and probably more torque as well.
--
Austin Shackles.
www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat" Euripedes, quoted in
Boswell's "Johnson".
