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Will Stricter Emissions Standards Eventually Kill the Diesel Engine?
Europe may love the diesel engine more than any other continent, but that doesn’t mean Rudolf Diesel's invention will have it easy in the future. Leading automotive engineers believe that the domination of diesel engines in Europe’s new car market may end before 2020. Read more »
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Audi Introduces New 240hp 3.0-liter V6 Diesel For A6, A7, A8 And Q5 Suv In The U.s.
While extremely popular in Europe, for a long time, diesel-powered passenger cars were a non-entity in the U.S. automotive business. Furthermore, it was more likely to see pink flamingos parading in Times Square than a premium brand automobile with a...
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Analysis: Why Aren't Diesel Engines More Popular In The States?
Unlike European motorists, the vast majority of U.S. car buyers prefer their vehicles’ engines to consume gasoline and not diesel. Across the pond, diesel-powered models account for half of all vehicle sales, reaching at times as high as 70 percent...
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Porsche Cayenne Diesel Revealed And It's Equipped With Audi's 240hp 3.0 V6 Tdi
The first oil-burning production car from Porsche has arrived in the form of the Cayenne Diesel. The famous for its sportscars German automaker has equipped the Cayenne Diesel with a 3.0-liter V6 turbo diesel engine that has been supplied by sister Audi...
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Nissan To Launch Diesel Powered X-trail Suv In Japan In 2008
Nissan is due to become the first Japanese carmaker in more than a decade to offer a diesel powered passenger car to the domestic market as it announced its plans to launch a new clean diesel engine for use in the X-Trail SUV in the fall of 2008. In Europe...
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Subaru To Present The World's First Boxer Turbo Diesel Engine
See, this is one of the things I love about Subaru. Instead of choosing the easy way by borrowing a diesel engine from another manufacture or developing a "normal" diesel powered motor of it's own, Subaru went ahead and engineered the world's...
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