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10-10-2006, 09:21 AM
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Mercedes Diesel News......
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10-10-2006, 09:32 AM
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Mercedes is still leading in diesels. A couple of things stated in the article that I thought were interesting are the facts that BMW and others don't have the Bluetec technology and that this is only the first generation of Bluetec. I have read that with the Urea injection system that will be on the second generation that the car will actually run cleaner than a comparable gas engine. This is what will allow them into California and New York, which have large Mercedes buying populations.
Another article that was posted also mentioned that the Bluetec technology is premiering in North America, which is typically rare when it comes to any of the German car manufacturers.
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10-10-2006, 11:37 AM
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10-10-2006, 12:06 PM
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Well the USA are not ahead on CO2!
Diesels, ethanol flex-fuel, "hoy no circula" etc... never debuted in the USA. Having legislation ahead is a very relative matter (actually i would say that the "ahead" thing only applies to Kalifornistan... Back on the topic: Urea injection did not debuted in the USA. It been several years now that busses and heavy duty diesel have the injection in Europe (euro V legislation, see Adblue). Bluetec is only debuting in the USA in the light duty vehicles.
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10-10-2006, 12:10 PM
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um i ran some e85 in my saturn yesterday, so i don't know what u are talking about EDIT: i digress i missed the key word DEBUTED we were getting gas cheap, that is why i took so long for eth. to get here, but south america has had it for freakin ever.
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10-10-2006, 02:02 PM
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Watch out for Honda's new i-CTDi diesel technology as it might put DC's technology to shame at least from the emissions perspective. We'll see. Competition is great.
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