Maybe the domestics are waiting for MB and BMW to make Diesel fashionable [again?], then follow suit. I mean GM could replace the gasser engine of every Malibu now sitting in dealer lots with a tested European Diesel engine and they wouldn't move off the lots any faster.

You have to consider that the constituency of this forum is a rogues gallery of IDI fans. We also need our wrench turning fix. New DIs won't appeal to much of this crowd. If you can't entice a bunch of Diesel-heads, how can you entice anyone else?

I've sworn off new cars. Nothing's been offered so far that I can't wait a few years, heck, 10-15 years to have. I'm sure many in this forum feel the same way. So you have a demographic that doesn't buy new cars and doesn't go to the dealer for service or parts. Why would manufacturers care for this demographic?

Maybe I'll get excited when key fob recognition wakes up the glow relay as I approach the car

Sixto
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