expat wrote on Dec 4^th, 2006 at 10:34pm:

What do you mean they got that one wrong.  They simply stopped producing the motors themselves, they still build diesel vehicles.  Most of the domestic car companies have others build their diesel motors.  Dodge does as well (their motors are built by Cummins).  I'm not sure about Ford.

In any case, they just created a contract with a big named diesel engine manufacture to build the motors for them.  Plus, my understanding is that Chevy built a diesel in the 70s/80s that used the same block as the 350 V8 and it was a very poor motor.  I can't remember the size of that diesel, but I remember it being a really bad piece of crap.  Its not suprising that they went to a major manufacture.