Honda May Outfit Ridgeline and Others With V6 diesel

This is what the Ridgeline has needed all along.

Yes, but, Americans will still demand a V8 because of all the brainwashing effects car magazines have had on our public for years.

Even with a V6 diesel, I don't think the Ridgeline sales will shoot out through the roof.

remove the "the" in the second paragraph...

The most moronic statement I have read today. Toyota has diesels in Europe you moronic dipshit.

toyota sells many diesels in europe, and doesn't sell too many hybirds here.
dumbass.
and last time i checked, the prius wasn't exactly quick.

Honda is definetely not digging their own grave. Honda has that reputation for producing environmently friendly vehicles and if/when they produce a vehicle, people will apply that reputation and will still buy it.

Honda is the number one engine builder in the world. Their successful history tells me that they may know what they're doing.

...you dumbass...

Toyota has many diesels in Central America & South America.

oh do you think they'll put this diesel in any hondas in the uk? maybe the legend, it needs one.

Jake, does that stand Jackass?

Toyota doesn't sell diesel here because they are not that good at it like the Germans are. Toyota doesn't take that many risks, they let others invent then they improve or follow. To those like you who are not too inform bought into their misleading commercials.

Remember when Toyota put the dirrecitional headlights on their Lexus RX350? They made it sound like they were the first to come up with it. While the Acura RL, Audi, BMW, Mercedes and all over Europe used it before.
The ideal is so old that even the Packard (First came up with it in cars)had it.

yeah, like in an RX advert that preached about the suspension that lowered itself at speed. 15 year old range rovers do that!

Honda has to first design this engine. The Audi Q7 will have a V6 TDI next year.

But nothing wrong with more diesels.

Diesels arent that hot though ... I particularly don't think they are as nioe as the anti-yota aka " Anti Hybrid Synergy" crowd makes it out to be.
1) Engines really dont rev. Sure u have torque, but no zip. If u r think about blipping the throttle while trying to rev match, u r in the wrong vehicle.
2) They work in Europe as they tax the life out of Gasoline while sparing Diesel. Sort of like a tax on "luxury" consumption as Diesel is also used by trucks.

Need to add a spell checker to this site :))

Or maybe you just need to read what you type before you post it!!

well,Saturn is equiped with Honda 6cyl 3.5 vtec eng.HONDA squeeze all the hp they can out that engine,
i've heard that they have a 3.7 in the 07 MDX,THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT A 10 CYL FOR THE 08 NSX,i just can,t
wait to see Toyota people will react.If Honda build diesel people that know about will buy it.Honda got agood track record

quote: "Diesels are not very quick"

Where has this writer been hiding the last five years.

A 3.0 V6 MB diesel in the E320 BlueTec goes from 0-60 in just 6.6 seconds. The 3.5 V6--note: 1/2 liter more-displacement--gas engine in the same vehicle goes from 0-60 in 6.5 seconds, and it is direct-injection, gas; not naturally-aspired. The 3.0 V6 diesel even has more torque than the 5.0 V8 gasser in the ML and R class vehicles, with 60-70 percent better fuel economy.

You can be in any gear, at any speed, on virtually any incline, and accelerate, without gear changes (auto or manual). This creates wonderful driving dynamics that is hard to explain. You have to drive them to understand. We buy horsepower, but drive torque.

The Audi R10 TDI won every Le Mans race on the circuit in diesels' debut year, The Le Mans ciruit requires some "zip" to win.

The VW Touareg TDI out "zips" both the V6 and V8 Touareg for the U.S. with better fuel economy than both. This TDI boasts 300 hp and 553 lbs of torque, 21 mpg hwy.

There are many more examples in Europe. BMW has some diesels that can perform with gas engines with 2 more liters in engine size.

You don't need high rev, to have zip. Diesels are preferred in Europe, because of their zip. Most modern diesels will rev to 4500 RPM. That is more than enough RPM when you're dealing with that kind of twisting force.

Diesel fuel and gasoline are taxed equally in the U.K. U.K. diesel sales currently represent 40% of that market. That blows your tax theory as well.

Diesels of old did not have zip or refinement and they propagated in Europe through favored tax statuses. This situation caused a revolution over the last ten years in diesel technologies, which has now created a superior product in almost every category. If you don't know about diesels lately, you don't know diesels!

Oh yeah! They can ALL use biodiesel blends of fuel with no loss in fuel economy; engine modifications; or need to buy a special design, as is not the case for ethanol-burning gassers.