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Subject:Re: Zetec diesel/Euro Diesels
From:Jim Akiba
Date:Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:47:56 -0500

Exactly, if we only had to have diesels certified to Euro 5 they'd be
here already.

Jim Akiba

On 2/20/08, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> "Chris S." <mrpolak@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>  > Some of you already know, but Europe is chock full of clean diesel
>  > engines.  Even Chrysler has been selling the 300C with a diesel
>  > engine there, but not in the USofA.  Chrysler finally put a diesel
>  > in their Jeeps here.  Honda sells diesels there too.  We only get
>  > the now-even-larger V8s.  Pick up a copy of Top Gear magazine to
>  > check them out.
>
>
> I don't think they are so much "clean" as that Europe does not have
>  the draconian emissions requirements that the USA has had for the last
>  few decades.
>
>
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>  1991 Vanagon GL
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