Thanks for making laugh, everyone at work is looking at me now..

 

It does have in common the fact that the Duramax was a joint venture with GM and Isuzu. I would be willing to bet the name for the Dmax vehicle came from a shortening of the Duramax engine.

 

I think the name is a little weird seeing as its an export model from a joint venture and the name seems to be English. But that's what I thought as well Adam.

 

Uh Oh! Is it too late to change my username?

 

Too funny,

A pet peeve of mine is the term loser. It would seem that many losers can not spell the word loser. They tend to spell it "Looser".

I see this SO much on Facebook. Is this just a slang spelling of it? Am I just too old to understand?

So when one of my kids are goofing around I call them a "Looser" and they just chuckle

 

I mostly posted this for laughs. But also to let people know of the Dmax's existence. I didn't know about it either until I looked up off road bumpers and someone at work sent me a link for a bumper for a dmax. Little more research and I found its a totally different vehicle.

 

I think calling trucks by their engine is kind of silly anyway.

Guys say they drive a duramax or drive a cummins. (Most are too ashamed to say they drive a power stroke haha).

But is it a 2500, 3500, single rear wheel, dual rear wheel?

It would be like me saying I drive a 5.3l.

Technically they drive either a Chevy, Dodge, or Ford, and the engine is just the engine.

 

That's how I look at it too Trax. It can be a little annoying always hearing about how great the "dodge Cummins" is.

 

Guess it is along the line of why I just say diesel instead of turbo diesel. After all, there is not a diesel in a vehicle today that isn't turbocharged, so it seems stupid to run around saying turbo diesel as if that is something different than the other diesels in vehicles. I don't even say Duramax, Dmax, Cummins, Powerstroke, PStroke, Detroit diesel, or whatever. I just say diesel. What is really funny is when someone calls Cummins a Cummings. That always gets me to smile. When I had my 2006 Jeep Liberty CRD, I just said it had a diesel. I did not feel the need to say it had a VM Motori Turbo Diesel, even though that is what it was. I think this whole fascination with what folks call stuff has more to do with social statements and such more than anything else.