Re: Cummins more efficient than SMART???

From: Eric (huffy340@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 16 2009 - 00:51:00 EST


That's a bit of a weird stat w/o giving us how they calculated it.

We don't know if they based it on the amount of power needed to
move the truck while cruising, or just on the mpg each car gets,
or ???

On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:53:32 -0600 Barry Oliver wrote:

> http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/30/the-different-sides-of-diesel-dodge-ram-2500-cummins-vs-smart/
> Quote:
> One point that we found to be rather interesting was that the
> Cummins 6.7-liter diesel engine actually scales rather well when
> compared to the 0.8-liter engine of the Smart. In other words, if
> the Smart's engine were the size of the Cummins engine, it would
> get worse mileage.



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