When General Motors decided to make a diesel engine a permanent part of its light-duty truck lineup in 1982, it partnered with Detroit Diesel for a 6.2-liter V8 rated at 130 horsepower and roughly 240 ...

When you think of a turbodiesel-powered pickup truck, at least one that's sold in the North American market, the first thing that comes to mind is surely a big, heavy duty truck. It is, after all, in ...

North America started to get a taste for diesel-fueled vehicles in the 1930s. In the first instance, only the largest of commercial vehicles relied on Rudolf Diesel's namesake invention because diesel ...