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Originally Posted by tankdriver
The real problem is what happens every time government bureaucracies make rules - they make terribly stupid ones. If the car companies didn't have to redesign the whole darn thing just to get it here, we'd have it already.
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That's indeed part of the problem. Requiring diesel engines running on high-sulphur fuel to meet gasoline-emission profiles is pretty unreasonable and that's been the case for years. That's like requiring gassers running on leaded gasoline to meet diesel-emission profiles (just plain impossible). The good news is that now with ULSD we will be seeing many more diesel offerings. Still, I would mostly blame the American public for not demanding better fuel efficiency. Truck and SUV sales are a bit down but still pretty hot. Gas is still too cheap.
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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)
Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL
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