Silverado Diesel

[jrk341]

Chevy is going to offer a 3 liter inline 6 diesel in there 1/2 ton pickup. 2019 Chevrolet Silverado Revealed - Chevy Silverado Specs, Price & Photos

[aceinspp]

Truck looks nice and hope it will not take over a year to get the HD trucks. Lets hope GM doesn't try to fudge on fuel mileage like Ford did with there diesels and got caught just like Volkswagen. Later RJD

[SlfMdeFam]

IMHO there’s no reason for a “mini diesel”! It’s only benefits are good gas mileage. In most cases (not all so save it) people don’t buy a truck for that reason. Like the ecodiesel and Nissan “mini diesel” there’s not much of a difference if any at all on towing. It’s still a 5 or 6 lug half ton. For the price of those trucks, again IMHO buy a real diesel 2500 and not be limited (within reason) to towing like most 1/2 tons.

[05CrewDually]

Looks like they disclosed the materials, including the aluminium parts folks were inquiring.

[jrk341]

I found it interesting that it is an inline 6.

[A32Deuce]

Originally Posted by 05CrewDually

Looks like they disclosed the materials, including the aluminium parts folks were inquiring.
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Aluminium in a GM? Oh the humanity! Next will be an oil burner in a 1500!

[BandJCarm]

Originally Posted by Chris Allen

IMHO there’s no reason for a “mini diesel”! It’s only benefits are good gas mileage. In most cases (not all so save it) people don’t buy a truck for that reason. Like the ecodiesel and Nissan “mini diesel” there’s not much of a difference if any at all on towing. It’s still a 5 or 6 lug half ton. For the price of those trucks, again IMHO buy a real diesel 2500 and not be limited (within reason) to towing like most 1/2 tons.

Daughter has a Colorado diesel and loves it. Huge mpg and tows most anything, and she loves it.

[pojp58]

GM already has a inline 6 that go in some of there 3/4 ton. That straight 6 has more torque at 7.1 then the V8 Duramax at 6.6.
Its actually a great engine.
Not sure about the new ones for the 1/2 ton trucks though.
My guess would be it will be a fantastic engine as long as they give drive train options.

[timfromma]

Due to their higher weight of the diesel engine, the payload capacity is less than the identical truck with a gas engine.

[DennisTD]

Originally Posted by jrk341

I found it interesting that it is an inline 6.

That's how they get the low-end torque up.