Ford Taurus 2010

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I do not believe America is really ready to accept a diesel openly at present. There are a few certainly. Mostly pick up trucks and to be honest the early attempts at American diesels for cars were not the greatest from what I recall. If it did not pull a tractor trailer the diesel was not that great utilized in a car. I remember the first Rabbit diesels by VW. Darn thing made a racket but it chugged along for hundreds of thousand of miles. Hell, the car body would rust out around the motor and that motor would keep on turning. I do think with todays tech in diesels and specifically VW's version Americans would grow to like them. The Jetta TDI is a great car. Yet we can not get the Passat TDI here in the state. Makes no sense. I do not object to diesels but for every one of my there is 20 others who do not want a diesel. They say the engine smells. So does the fuel and exhaust. The engine sounds like a sewing machine, etc. To some extend they are correct.

... have you looked at the prices of diesel... its higher than the supreme fuel (dont know if they have that in europe.)... lol