Author: staff@jalopnik.com (Monday Goma)
A fantastic deal has been said concerning the impending death of the manual transmission, and evidently the projection is proving to be accurate. Nowhere is that this more evident than within the pickup truck segment, where nearly all automakers now offer only automatic gearboxes across their ranges. Just last yr, you may order a brand new Jeep Gladiator with a normal six-speed manual. But that is sadly not the case, after Stellantis ditched the stick shift as a part of its updates for 2025, leaving the previously optional eight-speed automatic because the lone gearbox. Resulting from this, the Toyota Tacoma…
About 20 years after the launch of the 6.6-liter Duramax V8, GM’s 3.0-liter Duramax inline-six turbodiesel arrived in 2019 with a promise to deliver “outstanding fuel economy, great horsepower, and responsive torque.” Those have been fulfilled to this point, with the engine producing as much as 305 horsepower and 495 pound-feet of torque. In its best guise, the three.0 Duramax averages a goodly 26 mpg, so it’s little surprise that it found its way right into a handful of GM models, including the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Suburban, Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade. Later, it dropped the diesel…