The Detroit® DD16® engine is the biggest, toughest, most powerful engine Detroit has ever produced. With a wide, flat torque curve, and delivering up to 2050 lb/ft and 600 HP, it tackles your hardest jobs while performing with the fuel efficiency and reliability you’ve come to count on from Detroit.
Brochures and Videos MAINTENANCE INTERVALS AND WARRANTIESPulling huge loads up hills is what the DD16 engine was born to do. Its 15.6-liter displacement produces up to 600 horsepower, while providing amazing torque curve to get the heaviest loads moving.
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Designed for construction, distribution, dump, fire and emergency, government, motor home, oil and gas, refuse and regional.
If maintenance issues come up while on the road, you can count on Detroit Connect Virtual Technician. With Virtual Technician, you are notified within minutes when your vehicles experience a fault event, the severity of the fault and when, where and how to best fix the issue causing the fault so you can make informed service decisions.
With the longest service intervals in its class and an easily serviceable design, the Detroit DD16 lowers your cost of ownership by decreasing your time in the shop. With oil and fuel filters positioned above the frame rails, you'll be back in the driver's seat fast.
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