Over the last several months, General Motors European subsidiary Opel has launched its all-new 1.6 liter turbo-diesel engine (CDTI). The new oil burner, which replaces 1.7 liter and certain lower-power 2.0 liter diesel units in Opel’s powertrain lineup, offers a variety of power outputs and has been optimized for more power, greater fuel economy, reduced CO2 and lower emissions, combined with exceptional refinement.
In this video, Chief Engineer of Midsize Diesel Engines Gianmarco Boretto discusses the new engine and its various qualities, including such topics as:
- How did you increase fuel economy in this new generation of engines?
- How does selective catalytic reduction work?
- How did you reduce engine noise and vibration?
Notably, the 1.6L four-banger will make a maximum of 136 hp (137 PS) and 235 lb.-ft. of torque 320 (Nm) while consuming 10 percent less fuel compared to similarly-powerful 2.0 liter diesel engines. The first vehicle to be equipped with the new engine is the Opel-Vauxhall Zafira Tourer midsize MPV.
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sounds great for a Sonic rs with a 6 speed stick. if only…
An Italian in Rüsselsheim, Germany… one of the about 6000 people working at the GM/Opel ITEZ (Internationales Technisches Entwicklungs-Zentrum) there.
BTW, a week ago, I was on a guided tour thru the Opel factory at Rüsselsheim, which you can see via Google Maps, when you click the link. The area is easily recognizable.
Nearly everything between “Mainzer Straße” and “Weisenauer Straße” in the North, Darmstädter Straße in the East, Rugbyring (marked with the yellow “43” for Bundesstraße 43) in the South and South-West is Opel. Exception is the very north-east corner, the historical site of the first factory, which is sold to various businesses (Opel related), but the factory area betwen Mainzer Straße and the river Main in the north belongs to Opel, too. There should be a red flag with an “A” in it, which marks the center. The platforms of the railway station “Opel Werk” are just next to the South of it. The East-West railway line divides the area into two parts.
South of the railway line is the Opel company administration employing about 10’000 people and the ITEZ employing 6’000 people. The actual factory churning out several hundred cars per day (I saw 360 as the goal of one shift) occupies the area north of the railway line. Only 3’500 people are working there, in two shifts (or even less, 3’200 according to the German Wikipedia article). A couple of decades ago there might have been ten times as much.
This gives some food for thought about the supposedly too high labor costs in Germany.
The engine sounds like a winner. It should be a viable power plant for sometime. I hope that the General puts it into the Sonic.
This 1.6 diesel is going in the 2017 Cruze.