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Originally Posted by dieselmania
General Motors soured the public on diesel passenger cars for many years after their notorious Cadillac/Oldsmobile models failed miserably. I can still remember when I bought my 83 F20 diesel almost everyone would question my choice. "why did you buy a diesel, aren't they unreliable?" I got sick of explaining it to the non-mechanical minded ones, to them a diesel was a diesel and they were all bad.
I have always believed the GM fiasco is the main reason diesel cars never took off in the US.
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That was undoubtedly true a number of years ago. Many of today's prospective diesel buyers weren't even born then. A larger part of the problem IMO is that many people can't do basic math to determine the possible savings.