Detroit Diesel and Cummins are two of the market leaders in the world of diesel engines today, from pickups to semi trucks.

The company still manufactures a full range of heavy-duty diesel engines under the streamlined "Detroit" brand. Its current lineup includes the DD5, DD8, DD13, DD15, and the powerful DD16.

For the 57X, the Detroit DD16 is the most powerful engine available, but Western Star also makes the Cummins X15 engine available in the 49X. This Cummins engine can make up to 605 hp, narrowly ...

Detroit Diesel started building 71 Series engines in 1938, though it only offered them in an inline configuration at the time. It wasn’t until 1957 that the company would branch out and place ...

A Detroit-area factory known for making diesel engines is slated to get a $20 million investment to produce components for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks. The investment means the 3 ...

The Detroit Diesel Corp. will pay $28.5 million in fines and pollution-reduction projects to resolve violations of the federal Clean Air Act, the U.S. Justice Department and Environmental ...

DETROIT-- UAW Local 163 members at Detroit Diesel overwhelmingly ratified a five-year agreement that raises compensation for all workers and commits the Daimler Trucks North America subsidiary ...

A 16-cylinder two-stroke diesel sounds like kind of a weird engine -- and it is -- but they weren't entirely uncommon in their day, thanks to their ability to produce vast amounts of power and torque.

Detroit Diesel meets these expectations and surpasses them with its Detroit DD16, the biggest, cleanest, and highest-output diesel in the company’s 80 years of building engines.

REDFORD, Mich. – Detroit Diesel Corporation has collaborated with ESOC (Environmentally Safe Oil Change) Commercial Truck, Inc., to develop an Environmentally Safe Fuel Filter Change system for ...

President Obama is in metro Detroit on Monday to talk to workers at Daimler Detroit Diesel as part of his strategy to generate public support for his plan to avoid the fiscal cliff: the tax hikes ...