My brother thinks I'm totally nuts for driving a car with a diesel engine in it. He thinks noisey, stinky, shakey diesel engines belong in trucks and tractors, not a car! I made the mistake of teasing him about dropping a diesel into his Subaru Outback and making it a real dependable car (which it already is, was just ribbing him), and boy did that open the flood gates!
So, I guess there are a lot of people out there like him. They just plain don't get the point. I don't necessarily think they are way wrong, they just don't like diesel engines. Period.