I never understood the badge-engineering at GM but understood even less each badge making its own engines, seems like a crazy overlap of engineering resources bleeding the company. They HAD to make a lot of money, they had so many mouths to feed. Its not amazing that GM fell apart, whats amazing is how long it lasted...
-Curt Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:48:53 -0500 From: "Smith, Todd" <[email protected]> To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] GM diesel shortcomings Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Grant, I knew that Detroit Diesel had been part of GM during this timeframe but I didn't realize until I looked it up that they were part of GM since 1938. The Series 71 engines were originally designed in the '30s as their flagship product. The Series 53 engine was available during the 70's and even the 478 ci V6 Toro-Flow was available as a diesel. The engineering expertise was available to the corporation but not necessarily Oldsmobile. My reading suggests that each division was autonomous when it came to engineering design and that is why during this period you had 4 different 5.7L V8 engines with virtually no interchangeable parts. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
