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Originally Posted by Trunk Monkey

To call diesels in general unreliable is a little narrow. There's got to be some reason that:

- Semi trucks are diesel (and million mile motors are common)
- Heavy equipment is diesel
- Military vehicles are diesel
- Emergency generators are diesel
- Locomotives are diesel

See a theme? If you need it to work, it's a diesel. Diesels typically have lower emissions that gas vehicles, especially with low sulfur fuel. And, with forced induction, they typically develop much more power and torque. Hell, the average full size truck here is putting out over 600 lb-ft of torque. That's huge!

And with the way Toyota builds engines, their diesels are awesome. They offer them everywhere else world where they need vehicles that will run a LONG time.

no doubt that inherently Diesels are more reliable -mechanically speaking- and more efficient.
Another theme with the vehicles you listed is indeed torque at low speed where the Diesel shines. Heavy equipment, farm tractors, etc for instance where you don't need speed but need plenty of torque. No doubt that's a big part of why they're all diesels.