Autoblog reports: Diesel VW Jetta Sportwagen a real fuel-sipper. As if Detroit doesn't have enough to worry about, now VW is going to be sending over a diesel that gets 60 mpg on the highway! That's serious mileage. Add on the fact that diesel is less-expensive than gasoline and now you'll be able to put a lot more miles from that gallon of diesel... AND the engine will be clean enough for all 50 states. Might it be too early to predict a mega-winner? Oh, under $20k, too.
In your face, Detroit! It's all your faul... Well, you get the idea.
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Posted by: Radiator Expert | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 05:55 PM
People have been predicting a hybrid-beating diesel now for, what, about a hundred years? Still nothing beyond some anectdotal reports of a (compact) Jetta beating a (midsize) Prius on a highway-only roadtrip at 75 mph or the like.
Hey guys? Maybe Toyota knows something you don't know. The reason there's so many diesels in Europe isn't only because they're so amazing, it's also because their tax laws treat it so favorably. Like how we have so many stupid ethanol vehicles here now.
Posted by: M1EK | Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 11:47 AM
That would be the cleanest fuel indeed, I've been planning to have a diesel car and not yet decided on what to model to have, because I'l be giving my VW to my brother because it has been giving me some headache which regard to its radiatotr, though I already replaced 3 VW radiators in just a year... Hope, I could get one of this diesel cars...
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Posted by: The Car Geek | Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 12:15 AM
If you ask me, and I know you didn't, I say Saturn missed a big opportunity to bring clean diesels over here with the Astra, even if they can't sell em in all 50 states.
VW couldn't sell em in 50 states, and they still have been wiping the drool off their car lots for years now. That (completely organic) drool belongs to people who have dreamed all their lives about filling up their Schnauser-mobile with french fry grease and heading for the hills to start a soy farm and raise alpacas.
Posted by: David S. | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 at 02:01 PM