greg@isrnix.UUCP (Gregory Travis) (01/26/86)
As far as I know Volvo does not make their own "ground up"
(as in "from the ground up", not as in "ground up meat") diesel. The
Volvo diesel is a modified VW/Audi diesel with either an extra cylinder
tacked on (to make 6), or one removed (to make 4) (I can't remember).
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Gregory R. Travis
Institute for Social Research - Indiana University - Bloomington, In
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{pur-ee,allegra,qusavx}!isrnix!gregtohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen) (01/30/86)
In article <683@isrnix.UUCP> greg@isrnix.UUCP (Gregory Travis) writes: > >As far as I know Volvo does not make their own "ground up" >(as in "from the ground up", not as in "ground up meat") diesel. The >Volvo diesel is a modified VW/Audi diesel with either an extra cylinder >tacked on (to make 6), or one removed (to make 4) (I can't remember). You're correct in that Volvo does not make their own diesels. However, it *is* a "ground up" diesel, and a completely different block from the VW 4-cylinder and the Audi 5-cylinder. The VW 4-cylinder has been around since 1974 or so, being first used in the 1974 Passat (Dasher) as far as I recall. The 1977 Audi 100 5E (5000) added an extra cylinder to this block, and a few years later a diesel version was introduced. In any case, as I recall, the 1976 Golf D, which did *not* have a "ground up" diesel, provided much better performance than any of the diesels on the market at the time. Incidentally, VW also has a 3-cylinder prototype based on the same block. The 6-cylinder diesel, though, was designed to be a diesel. It hhas been used for almost a decade by Volvo, Peugeot and VW (the latter in the LT ("Large Transporter") van. I can't remember the specs but it's not based on the 4-cylinder. As to the future of these engines, VW's new Passat (Quantum) will use a transverse engine, which makes it impossible to use a 5-cylinder engine, so they will all be equipped with various types of 4-cylinder engines. Audi, on the other hand, is busy designing V6 and V8-engines to be fitted into their entire line; looks like they, too, are moving away from the 5-cylinder design. \tom haapanen watmath!watrose!haapanen I'm all lost in the Supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer Guaranteed personality (c) The Clash, 1979
struve@calma.UUCP (Dimetry Struve) (02/01/86)
The Volvo diesel is a VW truck engine, designed as a 6 cylinder diesel.