Pondering

Danton J.A. Cardoso djacardoso at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 10:31:26 PST 2008


Maybe so, but look at BMW and Mercedes. BMW is known for performance
and luxury, and some are oil burners.  Mercedes has their "workhorses"
diesel powered-240 and 300D.  However, what about the 400 SEL and
300SEL?

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:48 AM, John Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
> My take is that the suit wearing white colar coporate types that Audi
> *WANTS* to buy the cars have (and/or Audi's marketing fools believe they
> have) the belief that diesel is a nasty dirty oily mess that will cause you
> to smell horrible for 12 hours after installing it in your vehicle and that
> diesel cars are noisy and have trails of nasty smelly black smoke following
> them arround. Until the marketing department thinks that the buyers think
> otherwise we won't see the killer TDI's that Europe has.
>
> -Cody Forbes
>
>



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Danton J.A. Cardoso


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