"RG" wrote in message
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Just thought of another question: How's the clatter from the diesel from
the perspective of the two front seats, say compared to the clatter of the
Powerstroke from the same seats in the SuperDuty (a known reference)?

The Mercedes diesel is much, much quieter .... in fact when I went to get it
inspected and pulled into the garage bay, the tech didn't believe it was a
diesel.

It uses common-rail injectors, as does GM's (Izuzzo) Duramax. Ford uses
some other injection system on the 6.0L which is noisier. BTW ... the new
6.4L Ford diesel is going to use common rail injectors and should be much
quieter.

To answer your Sprinter question specifically, from the driver and passenger
seat the only time a knowledgable person would recognize it as being a
diesel is when you first start it up. After that, you can't tell, other
than a very mild and distant diesel knock when idling. You have to remember
also ... it's a much smaller engine than the pickup diesels.

Eisboch