CRDi Comparisons

[Mschumacher]

Which got a better CRDi engines? The japanese or the koreans?

[washburn]

hmm mahabang habang kwentuhan to

[Dieseldude]

Within 2 to 3 years pa siguro natin malalaman yan.

[kinyo]

Koreans? I believe they are using CRDI engines made in Europe, by an Italian company called VM Motori, with injector components and control modules from Bosch, a German company.

[imperialv]

The korean CRdi engine is really good. My carnival's engine is comparable to my previous serena engine (SR20) in terms of speed and has a good accelaration.

btw, can somebody explain what's the difference with crdi's generation?

2nd gen daw yun sa kia.. and euro 3..

[AG4]

Koreans? I believe they are using CRDI engines made in Europe, by an Italian company called VM Motori, with injector components and control modules from Bosch, a German company.

List of vehicles with VM Motori designed/developed diesel engines.
http://www.vmmotori.it/en/01/01/index.jsp

[silicon]

cguro koreans... wondering why japan's no. 2 car manufacturer, Honda, has no crdi models....

[Syuryuken]

Korean, yung unang sabak ng Isuzu at Toyota sa CRDI sumemplang sila, ang Hyundai wala pang reklamo sa CRDI engine nila.

Within 2 to 3 years pa siguro natin malalaman yan.

Anong year ba lumabas yung CRDI Starex? 2005 o 2006?

[putalittlemore]

2005 ...

for me its the koreans ...

[niky]

I guess it would depend.

Honda doesn't make its own diesels... yet... it buys them from elsewhere. Toyota has some good D4Ds in Europe that it can't bring here because of fuel quality. Hyundai CRDis are nice and smooth, for the most part, if you take care of them...but apparently nobody is immune to poor diesel quality. I've seen BMWs smoke, I've seen Hyundais smoke, I've seen Toyotas (lots more though) smoke. Isuzu? Seems like no issues yet, but I've been hearing rumors of a recall regarding nozzle gaskets. But as this is eerily similar to the o-ring issue of the Trooper, it has a 50% chance of being hearsay based on Trooper horror stories and a 50% chance being true (as in Isuzu hasn't learned anything about gaskets in the intervening years...). Am still looking it up.

The most impressive diesel I've driven recently is the Focus TDCi... and that isn't even a Ford engine... it's derived from Peugeot. And BMW and Audi are famous for creating high-powered diesels (BMW's 2 liter diesel can be boosted to 200 bhp by simple chip tuning)... so I'd say... the Europeans win.