Been doing a lot of reading about small diesels in development at DC, GM and Ford for light duty trucks, mostly small V8's and V6's. Me and my son went truck looking the other day and checked out the new Avalanche, my son is 5 and a motor head already. Anyways I wanted to see how the cylinder deactivation worked and found out that it works pretty sweet. But the really interesting thing is that there have been rumors about a small diesel for this platform with the release of the new model in 2007, when I looked under the hood I noticed it is set up for 2 batteries the only things that I could think you would need 2 batteries for is a snow plow or a diesel engine. I hope it means diesel, if GM comes out with a diesel in their light duty trucks then I think that you will see more options showing up from the other manufacturers.

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Gasoline is for washing parts - Alcohol is for drinking - Nitromethane is for racing - Diesel is for hauling.

2005 CRD Limited 4x4 - Deep Beryl Green - Selec-Trac
Trac-Lok - Skid Plates - BFG Radial Long Trail TA's- Rotella T 5W40 Synthetic.

2007 GC CRD Limited. Silver.

The service manager at the Chevy dealer that maintains my other two vehicles hinted of a smaller Isuzu diesel for the 1/2 ton Silverado coming shortly. The 2 battery trays are standard fare for Chevy/GMC trucks. On my '97 Chevy 1500 it is a good sized underhood tool/junk box.

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2005 Liberty Sport CRD, Lt Khaki, sunroof

Thankful to now be an EX-CRD owner.