History of the diesel car issue as a lot of diesel fuel contained water and also high levels of sulfur at the time. The engine was later revised into the DX block and most of the issues were fixed, a V6 version displacing 4.3 litres and a smaller 4.3 V8 were also offered around this time, mainly for the downsized front-wheel drive models of the mid-1980s and although they were much better in the reliability department, the damage had already been done and the North American diesel car market was severely crippled as a result, despite the best efforts by Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, Peugeot, VW
Diesel Electric railmotor (VR) Diesel Electric railmotor (VR) The Diesel Electric Rail Motor (DERM) was a railmotor operated by the Victorian Railways of Australia. Originally built as a Petrol Electric Rail Motor (PERM), they were the longest-lived railmotor on the Victorian Railways, with the first entering service in 1928 and the last being withdrawn in 1991. The first was built by the Newport Workshops to a design of the St. Louis Car Company. They were powered by Winton Motor Carriage Company petrol engines, until those were replaced in the 1950s by twin Diesel Electric engines providing a power output of . A DERM, with