Pondering

[Ed Kellock]

I've seen very few BMW diesels in America, more than other luxury makes
maybe, but not enough to support any inference that they're doing diesel in
America (though I'm not sure that's what you meant or not).  

In Europe they've all got diesel engines in their large cars, though to what
degree amongst them I don't know.

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> From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Danton J.A. Cardoso
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:31 AM
> To: John Cody Forbes
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Pondering
> 
> 
> 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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