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Originally Posted by Bender Rodríguez
I guess I should have been more specific in my comment I meant to say a 4 cylinder aluminum diesel engine to package in our cars.
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Originally Posted by Bender Rodríguez
Well I guess it's how you interpret the intent of the thread, to say it's a modification we should all do? Really then availability would be an issue at least for the us in the US shipping engines overseas would be expensive. In contrast there are modification that appear to be cheaper to produce teh same level of power not requiring the logistics.
Or do you take it as why doesn’t Lotus manufacture the vehicle with that as an option of standard. At least for that idea lotus doesn't have a light weight diesel option for the us market that will package easily.
I was thinking the thread was asking why doesn't lotus make the vehicle with that standard and my comment was to say, since it has to package easily for manufacturability and style plus they want it lightweight, your looking for a four cylinder aluminum engine, and again I don't know of one for our market produced in enough quantity for them to purchase.
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Considering this is in the "other cars" forum it appears the OP was asking about cars in general and not related to
our cars and why the diesel version of some cars are not available in the US but popular in Europe.
In terms of a diesel Elise there was a turbo diesel speedster (the version of the Elise made for GM) built to demonstrate efficiency once -
Opel Eco Speedster
