Honda's new lightweight efficient diesel
 

Hello all,

Read a link yesterday that I thought MINI owners might be interested in. One of the huge reasons I love my MINI is efficiency, and I'm interested in furthering efficiency, regardless of brand. :thumbsup:

http://www.gizmag.com/civic-16-litre-i-dtec/25084/

Most auto makers have made these for years for the euro market....
Issue for the us market is emissions...
Most need a catylast with DEF (urea) injection to meet is rules....when it works right, they are cleaner than any other type of motor...emiting just co2 and water....but still pretty imature technology wise...best suited for highway drivers....you need about an hour of continuous highway driving every 600-800 miles to allow it to "regen"...most intown drivers have had issues with "blurtec" systems that bmw/Mercedes use...the trade name for DEF.

Thats great!

mmm, turbo diesel, lets hope some nice ecu flashes come out. 160hp/300tq would be just dandy.

My standard Yurpeen production Mini SD turbodiesel has 143hp/225lb.ft and a conservative ECU remap would take that to about 180hp/270lb-ft.

So far I'm 'getting by' with just the 225 lb.ft which, coming from a justa Cooper, seems to arrive at the next corner quite soon enough.