history repeating itself?(rant)

[Michael Riebs]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
> One does wonder..if polls show people really DO want efficient cars,
> and American car makers haven't stepped up to the plate, why hasn't
> Audi, BMW, etc?  All have the TDI technology to make it happen,
> especially VW/Audi.

First of all, they *have* stepped up to the plate.

VW entered a rally race with the "Concept One", or whatever the new beetle
really is called, which was run on a bio-diesel engine (turbo?), which was
*really* fast!!
BMW did something similar. They entered some race with 2 identical cars -
finished 1 & 2, and only *after* the finish was it publicized that the #2
car was run on Diesel.

Second, TDI is now old hat. The newer, more efficient technology is "CDI",
the "commonrail Diesel".

The only reason we American's don't know about this is either that we don't
read the latest European auto news, OR we have stupid politicians that won't
make laws to make our Diesel cleaner (fewer sulfites), like it is in Europe,
so that these cars work as well as in Europe, or laws that make the high
mileage mandatory.

Ever head of the VW Lupo? Remind me again what the gas mileage is? 35Km/L ?
83MpG?

Michael Riebs
Grand Rapids, MI
'90 V8Q
'98 A6QA

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