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[Robert Taylor]

>   It's amazing how disadvantaged we are here in the US for diesels --
> almost none of the car manufacturers have ever imported all those nice
> diesels they sell to the rest of the world. Even VW only ever gave us a
> couple of the many they've made. Almost seems like a conspiracy. 8-)

Harmon,

It *is* a conspiracy--of the US diesel fuel suppliers, according to an 
article I read a while back (I thought it was on journeytoforever.org, but 
didn't find it there just now with a very brief search). Apparently the 
quality of diesel fuel in the US is so low that the modern diesels that run 
cleanly in Europe cannot meet US (California?) emissions standards, which is 
why the manufacturers won't import them, and diesels generally are branded 
as dirty, causing low consumer acceptance--about 1% (?) of new cars in the 
US being diesels, as against 35% (?) in the EU. But that or another article 
said that a new diesel standard was due to be introduced soon in the 
US--perhaps it is already in force now--so the situation may change.

Robert Taylor
Taiwan