With a Barry Boy exhaust, of course.Despite being a fully committed Range Rover fanatic, I’ve always had a soft spot for the XC90.
Obviously the only acceptable power unit in it was the Yamaha-designed 4.4V8 petrol engine, though. None of this tractor-fuelled nonsense.
The great sound of a crossplane V8. Nothing else as good, even a V12. A Subaru flat 4 sounds pretty good though, closer to home.With a Barry Boy exhaust, of course.
He used a gallon of fuel doing that burn-upWith a Barry Boy exhaust, of course.
The BMW 6 diesel is a ridiculously good engine, probably the best diesel engine available.I had an S60 with one.
Have to say that I thought it was one of the worst parts of the car. The claim was the power of a 6, with the fuel economy of a 4.
My experience was that it was the other way around.
On top of that, it was dog rough, sounding like a London taxi from cold, and the fuel economy went to pieces if you didn’t give it a decent run at least every couple of weeks.
Sorry, but for me, the BMW 6 was in a different league.
However, the gallon cost him the same as it would cost anyone else, but it made him smile.He used a gallon of fuel doing that burn-up
I had an S60 with one.
Have to say that I thought it was one of the worst parts of the car. The claim was the power of a 6, with the fuel economy of a 4.
My experience was that it was the other way around.
On top of that, it was dog rough, sounding like a London taxi from cold, and the fuel economy went to pieces if you didn’t give it a decent run at least every couple of weeks.
Sorry, but for me, the BMW 6 was in a different league.
So the Volvo was better?nearly bought an XC60 some years back, but the Volvo dealer was so unreliable and disinterested that I walked away and bought a Macan Turbo instead
So the Volvo was better?
As far as I know, Penta is part of Volvo the lorry maker, not to be confused with Volvo cars. They make exclusively diesel engines for lorries that is then converted for boats. Don't know about the current Penta engine range, are there any petrol ones?Passed a few volvo penta places , will they stop making diesel engines for boats ? What will replace them?
Curiously, that's the one recurrent problem in our 2014 V40 D3! I started to notice that my accelerator foot was going numb, and it was because the once wonderfully comfortable seat cushion was sagging. I had a local upholsterer boost it up, and all was well again - until recently, when I started noticing it again. For short shopping trips, it's no problem, but for longer trips, such as the Basel - Belfast long haul, it's quite uncomfortable and I rely on the cruise control, so that I can take the foot off the accelerator. Another trip to the upholsterer coming up.But I miss those Volvo chairs every day. Especially those of the V70, they were just so comfortable even after 350K…
They will eventually disappear. It's going to be like steam and horses, there will be some applications that need it and there will be a rump but it's going to be small indeed. Big (I mean container ship big) diesels have been running on bunker oil for decades. They are funny things, I don't know much about them except that they are 2 stroke diesels (why, I don't know, I would have thought that anything other than a 2 stroke would have given better fuel efficiency) and the bunker oil is so thick and nasty that the tanks need to be heated to make it fluid enough to burn.Passed a few volvo penta places , will they stop making diesel engines for boats ? What will replace them?
Big marine diesel engines are among the only ICE engines (bar F1 engines with energy recovery) that are approaching 50% thermal efficiency.(why, I don't know, I would have thought that anything other than a 2 stroke would have given better fuel efficiency)
I know that they are very good, as you would hope and as the operators are clearly very keen to ensure when you see how much fuel they have to consume. Do you happen to know why they use 2 stroke technology? It's very counterintuitive.Big marine diesel engines are among the only ICE engines (bar F1 engines with energy recovery) that are approaching 50% thermal efficiency.