Isuzu is reportedly set to begin selling pickups powered by a smaller capacity diesel engine in Thailand by 2015. According to the Nikkei, the company will introduce a 1.9 litre oil burner for the Thai market. It currently uses 2.5 and 3.0 litre versions for its D-Max.
Isuzu said that it is aiming for the 1.9 litre mill to have the same output and performance as the 2.5 litre unit. The report doesn’t mention if the new unit will replace the 2.5 – with similar numbers, it would seem a logical move to do so.
No word either as to whether this will be an in-house engine, or one that’s derived from General Motors. A report last week stated that Isuzu was set to utilise diesels sourced from GM for the Indian market, and these will find their way on to a new low-cost pickup it will introduce there in 2016.
The company says that the move towards downsizing is to keep vehicle prices down as well as offer improved fuel economy. It sold approximately 410,000 pickups globally as of March 31 this year, with the ASEAN market accounting for 65% of total sales. With the move towards a smaller displacement engine, the automaker is hoping to increase its sales volume by 20% as of 2016.
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1.9L with a 2.5L performance. I’ll buy that (if it turns out to be true!)
The korean 2.0 r series diesel have always had more power & torque than the current isuzu 2.5 diesels.
Kimchi diesel may more more power for the 1st 2 weeks of usage but deteriorates exponentially thereafter.
Also kimchi diesels have even poorer RV than their petrol counterparts
Yeah got 2.5 liter engine perfomance and the fuel consumption is like 1.9liter engine! And road tax also cheaper! yeah yeah
In terms of fuel save, under hard accelerations this will drain more fuel since they increase fuel injected amount for extra turbocharged air. But in terms of normal driving, this will be more fuel efficient. Maintenance & road tax will be much lower.
please make the cabin more spacious than Hilux if you want more sale in malaysia.
Changing Engine will not increase your sale.
Have you tried the newly launch dmax ? I don’t think hilux is spacious than this..
Bro, go try the new d-max and you will amaze by the space. It totaly not like the previous d-max. I was surprise by the space and comfortness when test drive.
D-Max is doing pretty good in Malaysia so far with the numbers of D-Max on the road that we can see. With down sizing the engine can potentially challenge the top guy -> Hilux
Under NAP it’s still around RM100K price not much difference lah…
Pickup truck is under commercial vehicles category. No excise duty imposed plus D-Max is locally assembled and no import duty as well. The reason price is high is because of the accessories given in a package form.
FYI. Refer other countries’ Isuzu D-Max pricing and the selling prices (only) are more or less similar to here.
this type of vehicle no excise meh…if local n asean made no tax oso meh…oni sales tax
Smart way of modern engineering,Diesel now follow petrol downsizing with turbocharging and gets million ke jillion torque and struggle at 3800rpm above.To make faster have to fork up another thousands of dollars for ecu upgrade,Air intake,Handling.Smart way of modern engineering.Last time my carburetor Civic 1.5 can easily pass the 190 kmh mark but of course with sluggish low torque but today even the Civic low/mid torque is superb but struggle to reach 180 kmh by actual speed trap.
Actually it is petrol engines follow diesel engines with the turbocharging trend. Diesel engine always having problems of narrow torque bandwidth that comes out very early of the engine rpm then just drops down, lack of power for NA diesel engine and bad emission and fuel consumption.
Adding turbo charger to diesel engine is for broaden maximum torque bandwidth, more power without bigger engine displacement, less noise and better fuel economy and emission.
Petrol engines follow this trend is mainly because of the strict European emission standards where road tax is basically based on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted. Smaller engine has lesser emission but lack of power. Europeans come out turbocharging on smaller petrol engine is to reduce fuel consumption and emission while having larger NA engines’ performance to enjoy lower taxation.
Actually diesel engine leading in terms of technology. Turbocharged direct injection came from 4JA1-L Isuzu engine which built 1980s. That time other manufacturer widely use indirect injection. Up to today, many petrol cars still using indirect injections for example vios, both type camry, campro, teana, and many more. Only some new toyota D4, mazda skyactiv, porche, bmw, mercedes new engines start using direct injections. Plus, some just start to turbocharging and using piezo injectors on direct injections. Where diesel, Isuzu’s both commonrail, navara, mazda & ford and some others had been using piezo injection systems on 2005.
Diesel cannot operates on high rpm because the torque is very high. Plus injection pressure have to be high too for high rpm. The engine compression also too high thus engine life shorter. Easily loss compression.
Isuzu offered 2.2 and a 1.9 liter Diesel motors in their light pickup trucks in the USA throughout the 1980s, and still offer Diesel motors in their medium trucks. Most likely simpler to discover a transformation of present day conservative trucks to utilizing a 4bt, or change over one yourself.
Good day Paul,
Is Isuzu Malaysia going to bring in Isuzu ‘MU7’? I saw one recently in Kelantan (Thai plate) and the model looks very nice (7-seater SUV).
I don’t think they will unless the Isuzu DMax gets high demand.