Message from @LordCaledus

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2018-07-06 02:17:36 UTC  

Mercedes' new 6 cylinder is gonna be an L6 too, IIRC

2018-07-06 02:17:56 UTC  

Also the Ram 2500 diesel is an L6

2018-07-06 02:17:57 UTC  

A big one

2018-07-06 02:18:01 UTC  

GM has a new 6cyl 3.0 diesel

2018-07-06 02:18:15 UTC  

Yeah, we love our Cummins lol

2018-07-06 02:18:15 UTC  

That's an inline? Huh, didn't know that.

2018-07-06 02:18:33 UTC  

I thought for sure they'd go V6 like FCA and Ford.

2018-07-06 02:18:40 UTC  

Nope! 😄

2018-07-06 02:18:47 UTC  

Cuz that's mainly what those guys do now when it comes to trucks: copy each other.

2018-07-06 02:19:11 UTC  

GM's 2.7T 4 cylinder is probably the newest idea any of the Big Three have had for trucks in years

2018-07-06 02:19:53 UTC  

Yeah, I'm hesitant about that. Maybe in commercial vans, or as a base option in the Camaro lol

2018-07-06 02:20:18 UTC  

Tiny 4bangers don't belong in trucks

2018-07-06 02:20:39 UTC  

2.7 liters is "tiny"

2018-07-06 02:20:42 UTC  

For a 4 banger

2018-07-06 02:20:43 UTC  

Wot

2018-07-06 02:20:51 UTC  

The cylinders in that thing are massive

2018-07-06 02:21:04 UTC  

It's big for a 4banger, tiny in displacement for a truck

2018-07-06 02:21:06 UTC  

I'm willing to bet it will make torque far easier than the 2.7 ecoboost

2018-07-06 02:21:19 UTC  

For a 4 cylinder, low revving turbo engine, that's huge

2018-07-06 02:21:25 UTC  

And it doesn't even make much boost

2018-07-06 02:21:41 UTC  

For a base truck engine, it's a massive improvement over the 4.3L V6

2018-07-06 02:22:13 UTC  

I'd trust the robustness of that 4.3 more over the new 4cyl

2018-07-06 02:22:21 UTC  

Well yeah

2018-07-06 02:22:30 UTC  

That's basically any 20 year old engine, though

2018-07-06 02:23:03 UTC  

Turbocharging has not equated automatically to bad reliability since the 1980s, though.

2018-07-06 02:23:18 UTC  

No, but new engine tech usually does

2018-07-06 02:23:27 UTC  

What about this engine is new?

2018-07-06 02:23:32 UTC  

Everything

2018-07-06 02:23:42 UTC  

Not the base tech it uses.

2018-07-06 02:23:51 UTC  

That's Ecotec shit that's been used since the 2000s

2018-07-06 02:24:02 UTC  

It's not based on the ecotec

2018-07-06 02:24:16 UTC  

Not any ecotec engine in particular no.

2018-07-06 02:24:36 UTC  

Point is, yeah I wouldn't trust it either

2018-07-06 02:24:38 UTC  

For now.

2018-07-06 02:24:49 UTC  

But I wouldn't trust an N/A engine right out of the gate either.

2018-07-06 02:25:07 UTC  

No engine is trustworthy when new. Give it two or three years, though, and this one has potential.

2018-07-06 02:25:14 UTC  

Seen it

2018-07-06 02:25:21 UTC  

👍

2018-07-06 02:25:23 UTC  

lol

2018-07-06 02:25:29 UTC  

I like this direction for truck engines though.