Ford is marketing its Triton truck engine, and Cadillac is touting its powerful Northstar engine.
Meanwhile the major truck engine manufacturers are developing and manufacturing engines to run directly on natural gas.
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Cummins owned the high horsepower truck engine business then, not International Harvester.
New EPA regs on truck engine emissions will further drive the trend.
Over 200, 000 have been sold so far, though not long ago a truck engine without eight cylinders was doomed in any barstool bragging contest.
Furthermore, CAT and Navistar has signed a new pact to develop a new cab-over-engine Caterpillar vocational truck which is expected to be sold globally by both companies.
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And not the least, Navistar has been mentioned speculatively in the past as one of the attractive takeover candidates in truck and engine manufacturing which in part probably prompted Icahn into taking a reasonably big stake in the company.
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In other words, the diesel engine manufacturer must pass along the cost of the starter to the truck company, and the truck company must then pass along the cost of the engine to the final consumer.
Nissan also plans to upgrade the engine in its Titan full-size pickup truck and seek to double that vehicle's U.S. sales, he said.
Still, executives at independent engine start-ups say they are getting a hearing from some established car and truck makers, and in a few cases are landing agreements that could lead to production deals.
The delivery truck that hauls your overnight package could soon be doing the job without the engine running half of the time.
The way to get decent truck mileage is to go with a smaller truck, and in some cases, you can even opt for a larger engine.
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