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Originally Posted by Dana B.
Seems like old news. My VW TDI gets nearly 50 in city/highway driving ('00 ALH model), with better economy and power after a recently chipped ECU. The new pumpe deuse injection models get somewhat less.
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Well your TDI still produces some black smoke upon heavy acceleration, pollutes much more than a hybrid, is slower than, say, the Prius and is expensive. Not to say you're car is bad, but my proposal is for the creation of a very cheap, very efficient diesel engine with all the current technologies that make today's diesel engines as refined as their gasoline counterparts. If the car can be made to be at least as fast as a smiliar hybrid while delivery similar or better fuel economy and low emissions and also be nicely priced without the $3,000 or so premium that plagues hybrids, then the industry will begin to think twice about all the hybrid noise.