From a practical stand point, modern hybrids have modern diesels beat by a mile. Hybrids are quicker, burn cheap fuel, get much better city fuel economy where most people live and have proven more reliable over the years. While I enjoy the fact that diesels are making a comeback in this country, Toyota, Honda, Ford, GM etc sell 10 hybrids for every diesel passenger car in the US.
It also appears that diesels popularity in Europe has started to decline.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1082978_are-diesel-cars-in-europe-starting-a-long-slow-decline
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Most smaller European diesels don't currently need urea injection, but new "Euro 6" emissions standards will arrive in September 2014.
They're roughly equivalent to U.S. standards that have seen urea injection fitted to every passenger diesel sold in the States except the Volkswagen Golf and Jetta and 2014 Mazda6 diesel.
The industry expects a further tightening of standards, with "Euro 7" already being discussed for 2020 or later. That will only make it harder and more expensive to build already-pricey diesel engines.
At some point, the extra expense of a diesel car simply won't be worth the extra money over increasingly efficient (and cheaper) gasoline vehicles--and the market will ebb.
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