General Motors is seriously looking into oil burners, with it’s latest move to buy 50% of Italian diesel engine maker VM Motori.
VM Motori and GM have jointly developed a 2.9 litre V6 turbodiesel engine for the upcoming European market 2009 Cadillac CTS (shown above). The engine will be designed, developed, tested, and built at VM Motori’s plant in Cento, Italy.
This 2,935cc DOHC 60-degree V6 turbodiesel engine makes 250 horsepower and a nice 550Nm of torque from 2,000rpm, and is flexible in it’s possible applications – both longitudinal or transverse layouts are possible, as well installed in both two wheel drive or four wheel drive cars.
Fuel economy is boosted using high-speed, piezo-resistive cylinder pressure sensors that are integrated within the engine glow plugs which read combustion data in real time and enables instantaneous fine-tuning of the fuel injection process.
Fuel injection is via a high pressure common-rail system with piezo injectors that can do up to 2,000 bar injection pressure. The turbocharger is mounted smack in the middle of the two cylinder banks, ensuring turbo piping is kept to a minimum length.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
why not 3.0 ?
caddilac in european mould with american essence,
Doesn’t Kia Carnival in Europe use a 2.9 Liter Diesel Engine from VM Motori? But that engine had 4 cylinders. So put your Cadillac – VM Motori into Naza Ria! I would buy that…
lol Isuzu Dimax head lamp ~ … looks like all sedan now have a diesel engine ~ … BIO diesel … but malaysia automotive still slow
income tax reason thats why they make it 2.9?
Its now affordable for us to drive cadillac in bolehland.