D40-Outlaw said:
a900 said:
Still much more power and torque than we get in our trucks.
The new VW pickup seems to have better bhp for size but they have made there engine smaller, only 2l. Seems they think there aint a market for powerful pickups in UK.
Navara v6 sounds nice
vw's pick up is massively under-tuned. only 163bhp or is it 167 I can't remember from a twin turbo 2.0 liter diesel, the bmw 123d is a 2.0 twin turbo diesel that makes 204bhp.
Getting way more power out of smaller engines isn't actually new, but most of them have one thing in comon: the will fail way earlier than one of the undertuned bigger blocks, and if the do with their 15 turbos and whatever gimmicks the engineers found in their toolbox, the produce a massive bill.
My local mechanic told me that way more of the twin-and-more turbocharged cars come in before 100tkm with some major fault, than the classic layout with "one or less turbos and a lot of displacement".
Granted, the engineers do their homework and it gets better, but the tiny powerhouses are still way behind on reliability. In a small golf or 1-series it will take longer untill they fail, simply because they don't have a lot of load, but if you would put on of those in a big workhorse, i think it wouldn't last very long. Was my main concern with the Amarok btw.