Jeremy,
Wish you could drive the Corolla diesel which is quite common here in India and Asia in general, it has one the most responsive, sweetest diesel engine and runs as quite as a gasser and is peppy to boot. Also due to inherent diesel atttributes is very frugal and extremely reliable.
Seems like the management at Toyota is real afraid to introduce diesel to the US market due to apparent bias against anything diesel, it is sad as the US is missing out on a great deal.