The Peugeot 908 V12 HDi DPFS

On 14 June 2005, Peugeot announced its decision to accept a new technological challenge: to win one of the world’s most prestigious and demanding motor races, the Le Mans 24 Hours, with a car powered by an HDi diesel engine equipped with a diesel particulate filter system (DPFS).

This legendary race, which every year attracts more than 200,000 spectators, will provide Peugeot with an opportunity to express fully the values enshrined in its philosophy: excellence, demonstrated by the choice of endurance coupled with reliability, dynamism, emphasised by a team challenge based on performance, looks, illustrated by the car’s feline profile, and lastly innovation, expressed amongst other ways through the use of technology designed to protect the environment.

The car that will display the Peugeot colours in the Le Mans 24 Hours race and in the “Le Mans Series” in 2007 will be the Peugeot 908. The choice of number comes from, “90″ designating an exceptional Peugeot model and 8 the next number in sequence after the 907 concept car.

The choice of body style is that of a closed car, in line with changes to the regulations announced by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest on 16 June 2006.

Equally there was also a desire to keep a link with the two-times winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1992 and 1993, the Peugeot 905.

While from a technical point of view this solution presents a number of drawbacks (weight, height of the centre of gravity, operational problems), the Peugeot Sport team felt that it also offers advantages, particularly in terms of chassis rigidity and aerodynamics.

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Remember the Dodge Avenger Concept I showed you awhile ago? Well I found out that the diesel it’s getting is none other that VW’s 2.0L TDI engine with 140hp and 236ft-lbs. of torque. You can get it either as an automatic or the manual option may either be a five-speed designed by Chrysler or a six-speed Aisin model.

Again, I’m sure we’ll never see it in the states(diesel version), but it’s still a nice design to look at.

The truck that keeps America working just keeps getting better. The new 2008 Super Duty builds on Fords leadership in the truck segment with a bold American look, redesigned interior, new state-of-the-art Power Stroke® clean turbo diesel and a host of innovative features not found on any other truck. Super Duty expands the lineup for 2008 with the new F-450 pickup, boasting more than 6,000 pounds of payload capacity and more than 24,000 pounds of towing power.

The 6.4-liter Power Stroke turbo diesel joins a powertrain lineup that includes the segment’s most powerful gasoline engine, the 362-horsepower, 6.8-liter V-10 Triton®. The new diesel makes an impressive 350 horsepower at 3,000 rpm and 650 ft.-lbs. of torque starting at 2,000 rpm. It uses Ford Clean Diesel Technology™, which includes a high-pressure, common-rail fuel system with piezo-electric fuel injectors and series sequential turbochargers to deliver performance while reducing particulate output up to 97 percent and posting emissions numbers on par with gasoline engines.

The all-new interior builds on the successful, tough-luxury precedents set by the Ford F-150, delivering the kind of capability, quietness and refinement never before available in the segment.

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Honeywell announced the worlds first parallel sequential dual stage turbo and is being shown at the Paris Motor Show on the 30th. It will debut on the Peugeot 407 and 607, and the Citroen C5 and C6.This new two-stage turbo technology is said to deliver 30% more torque on PSA’s(Peugeot Société Anonyme, or what is the Peugeot and Citroen group) 2.2 liter baseline diesel engine. The 2.2 liter Peugeot HDi diesel engine hits 243ft-lbs(330Nm) at only 1300rpms, and 273ft-lbs(370Nm) at 1500rpms which is incredible for such a small engine.

Development for this began in 2003. The normal sequential turbo system works by basically using a smaller turbo for low rpms and a larger turbo for higher rpms. Honeywell’s parallel sequential turbo system works by using two smaller turbos at high rpms but only one at low rpms. The new system works so well because a patented progressive progressive control valve starts the second turbo while it’s idling in the first engine phase.

Honeywell will also be developing a sequential turbo system for 2007

Source: theautochannel