The United States Environmental Protection Agency just accused FCA of cheating on diesel emissions testing. Say goodbye to any US diesel Wrangler now and forever.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/01/12/epa-fiat-chrysler-used-software-to-cheat-on-emissions-tests/
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The US market JL will definitely not get the diesel first year launch 2018. It was mentioned that most likely it would slip to 2019. This information came from Milous.
Now, it "may" appear to have slipped yet another model year to 2020. This information DID NOT come from Milous so it may be...
The chart is just the hard line CO2 requirements and their set dates 2015, 2018 and 2022. FCA just places dots on the various models it produces or will produce to meet these dates. There is no scale in between the CO2 hard dates do I read the diesel wrangler as sometime before 2022.
The new...
All your other sources? Do they work at Jeep? Are they reputable websites?
Milous is a Jeep insider.
http://www.jeepgarage.org/f89/2017-wrangler-jk-information-thread-95956-124.html#post1323470
Also read the other sticky here on this forum. Milous didn't write it but it also states all gas...
2017 is JK model, no diesel for USA, only export.
2018 JL model confirmed no diesel for USA, still only export.
2019 JL diesel for USA is questionable
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Two comments:
1) The pickup is JP, not JT
2) 3.0L diesel for north america isn't scheduled till 2020 per your other thread.
http://jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/timeline-new-jeep-wrangler-to-include-gasoline-diesel-mild-hybrid-full-hybrid.13/
JL diesel was scheduled for 2018 with the new model. Then pushed to 2019 as the second year JL. Now, post 1 in this thread states "around 2020".
Don't get me wrong, there will be a diesel JL way before that, just not for USA market. That diesel just like the current JK diesel wrangler will be...