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Originally Posted by BeeCee
Do they get fantastic fuel economy ?
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Those water-cooled horizontal-single Diesels are often reported to be quite efficient in general, no wonder they're still widely used for small tractors and some small fishing boats. Had them been too bad, they could at least literally serve as boat anchors, because they're quite overweight
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I was operating on my experience with cars that have great economy.. tend to be called underpowered by others. I'm perfectly happy with the acceleration on my 1 liter honda Insight and my old vw van which have both been described that way.
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28 years ago this model was praised as "revolutionary" for introducing EFI to the Brazilian 1.0L-engined cars, with a Rochester TBI. Now it's often pointed out as "underpowered", yet it can still get the job done for many people.
Roughly the same engine, with a higher compression and port-injection, at that stage the power increase was around 42% still within the 1.0L class. A port-injection with the low compression was already rated at a 20% higher power than the older engine fitted with a TBI, but even the high-compression engine was already pointed out as underpowered.
I still remember when Ford only offered the 4-cyl 2.2L turbodiesel in the Ranger on fleet-specific versions, supposed that most customers would prefer the 5-cyl 3.2L turbodiesel instead. Nowadays most of the times I see a Ranger it has exactly the 4-cyl...
