What’s the foreign automaker that’s coming out with a small diesel with a fairly low price tag like your talking about? Aside from one Volkswagen model, there are no imports.

The biggest reason why we don’t run on diesel is it’s an export, not an import. We import and refine gasoline, and in the process we create excess diesel and ship it over to Europe.

And about this explanation for high diesel prices… I don’t see any other reason other than it being a scam. Five months ago I did some pretty extensive research on it, and found that prices were high simply because of the cold winters throughout the country, which drove heating oil and diesel prices up. But now I believe they are artificially high, meaning someones found a way to profit off of it….

Here is the deal, just by reading your post. If the Big 3 failed, and were no longer in business, I’m not so sure you would still be happy. I think you would still be complaining about those foriegn car companies. Just easy to read your personality…..never happy.

So hypothetically, if diesel was on par with gasoline and i chose this 4.4L over the gas 5.4L what is the advantage of the diesel (besides better mileage)? Does it provide more torque? (I’ve never owned a diesel so im trying to get educated)

The Trident Iceni, that odd looking sports car with the killer diesel that gets better power than more supercars and better f/econ than a Prius, uses a weird little trick that I bet no one has really thought to take seriously. The car is also supposed to be very fast and made to last for-nearly-ever.

The Engine, a 6.6L turbo diesel V8, is slow. It tops out at around 4500 rpm. Most hi-pro engines don’t make best power for another 1000rpms and top out at twice that. Running so slow the engine is expending way less fuel per unit time than other modern diesels.

Modern? As in slow engines were typical in the late 19th and very early 20th century. Bentley and Rolls were well known for their locomotive inspired engines that could torque enough to slow the earth’s rotation and last forever and a day.

Today such engines gave way to the romance of higher-revving engines… that and transmissions made to make best use of slow engines were not being made except by a scant few automakers. They went out or had to buy higher geared trannies to stay in the game.

I would put more interest in slow engines and transmissions. They last longer and, it would seem, much more fuel efficient.

You can laugh at diesel vehicle owners all you want, but you’re paying for the high diesel prices too – with everything you buy. This crap has been going on for too long – 4 years now.