For your reading pleasure
https://jalopnik.com/americas-first-ever-diesel-jeep-wrangler-is-the-torquey-1839766068
https://jalopnik.com/americas-first-ever-diesel-jeep-wrangler-is-the-torquey-1839766068
A $4000 add-on on a vehicle that already tops out at 60k fully loaded (or is it 62k?).
So basically a fully loaded JL Rubicon will now run you 64-66k.
The article lists the "base price" at $39k, but in the article he comments that the Sahara he drove was $56k. Nuts.
Any more the amount of gears they can jam into an auto and how well they can program them and how well they can do off-road. It's harder to justify going with a manual. However we have a trouble at work with the newer transmissions. We have stuff mess up and we're getting towed more now than we used to and we switched all of our trucks to 1 ton and larger and we used to use 1/2 tons like 1 tons and that was less than a decade ago when we were still driving trucks made in the mid-2000s.If I were in the market for a new Jeep, and I had the extra money to spend, I’d seriously consider looking at one. My biggest complaint is the lack of a manual. Possibly in the future (if the diesel sells well) they will make a two door and a manual.
I didn't read that specific article, but I am fairly familiar with the emissions on new diesels and I would probably spend an extra $2k or so to get rid of that crap and get better MPG and really increase my reliability and life of the engine and risk less fires and reduce my CO2 emissions (if that's your thing).
EPA emissions equipment, especially on diesels decreases some emissions and increases the amount of fuel required to complete your task which directly relates to CO2. If you're indoors the stuff is awesome but outside the emissions is about like using perfume or something.How can you get rid of the emissions equipment *and* reduce your emissions at the same time? Am I misunderstanding what you said here?
EPA emissions equipment, especially on diesels decreases some emissions and increases the amount of fuel required to complete your task which directly relates to CO2. If you're indoors the stuff is awesome but outside the emissions is about like using perfume or something.
New emissions equipment also reduces component life, which means more parts need to be produced over the life of the vehicle which isn't included in the analysis and engine life is reduced which means you gotta produce more stuff when you throw away your vehicle.
EPA is regulated more by politicians than science. Many of our emissions are set by groups that have major stakes in the electric vehicle market.