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What Would It Take for YOU to buy a diesel car?

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#7166 of 9748 Re: Two grand higher than the TDI [gagrice] by Stever@Edmunds HOST

Nov 15, 2012 (1:17 pm)

Replying to: gagrice (Nov 15, 2012 1:00 pm)
Of course foreign and out of state are free to pollute. Not according to my link. You have a better one perhaps?
 
They truck stops have (or should have) plug ins for the cabs. Doesn't explain why the local pickup truck drivers do it so much.
 
Why isn't GM buying in? Too many bad memories from the 80s? Surely they have the tech from the pickups to get some diesels in the passenger fleet and help their CAFE average. Maybe they are, but 500,000 seems like a pretty big number.
 
GM goal: 500K with electrification by 2017 (Detroit Free Press)

#7167 of 9748 Re: Two grand higher than the TDI [steve_] by gagrice

Nov 15, 2012 (1:48 pm)

Replying to: Stever@Edmunds (Nov 15, 2012 1:17 pm)
The EV strategy is all political BS. GM better get a move on. They have sold 19k Volts through October. If they reach the Volt target of 25k what are the other 25k electrified vehicles they are talking about being sold this year? They are supposed have a Cruze diesel ready to go. I know Rocky keeps claiming it will be here very soon. Same for Jeep and their GC diesel. I think they took a page out of the Microsoft book of promises.
 
I would imagine your local diesel truck drivers are using farm diesel which is not all that clean yet. Better for those older diesel PU trucks than ULSD. If you ran that farm diesel in your new VW TDI you would wish you hadn't.

#7168 of 9748 Re: Two grand higher than the TDI [gagrice] by Stever@Edmunds HOST

Nov 15, 2012 (1:53 pm)

Replying to: gagrice (Nov 15, 2012 1:48 pm)
That stuff should be dyed and result in big fines if you are caught driving around with it, right?
 
Tell Rockford hello and ask him to pop in with the lowdown sometime. Be curious to see what the people actually making the engines say.

#7169 of 9748 Wow, try to get a day's work done.... by habitat1

Nov 15, 2012 (2:40 pm)

..and come back to 50 posts that remind me of Chevy Chase counterpunching Jane Curtin with his "ignorant slut" rebuttals.
 
"Dammit, ruking1, diesel kills". "No, Steve, you ignorant host, gas kills".
 
It's kind of fun reading this without having to sign up for a pay-per-view account.
 
All I know is that our X5d hasn't killed anyone, save for a squirrel that couldn't make up its mind on which side of the street looked better. And it doesn't billow out anything that resembles a Mexican panel truck. On the other hand, I don't think it really has a $8,000 added cost buried in it's sticker price, as it cost $1,500 LESS than the X5 3.5i after BMW's generous eco-credit. I'd like to think BMW is being philanthropic to me personally, but unlikely. And, according to the BMW folks I talked to down at the Performance Delivery Center, they'd like nothing more than to have the 380 hp M-diesels available here in the USA to tear up their track in Spartanburg. They put at least as much of the blame on dumb American misconceptions and biases holding BMW corporate back, as on regulatory stupidity (although there is definitely some of that, too).
 
I have a solution. Ruking1 puts his nose up to my X5d exhaust pipe. Steve puts his up to our MDX exhaust pipe. First one that falls over or throws up loses. I'll post the video on a pay site and split the profits with the winner and the loser's estate.
 
Cheers, guys.

#7170 of 9748 Re: Wow, try to get a day's work done.... [habitat1] by gagrice

Nov 15, 2012 (2:43 pm)

Replying to: habitat1 (Nov 15, 2012 2:40 pm)
too funny

#7171 of 9748 Re: Wow, try to get a day's work done.... [gagrice] by Stever@Edmunds HOST

Nov 15, 2012 (2:49 pm)

Replying to: gagrice (Nov 15, 2012 2:43 pm)
Once again, we're showing our ages.
 
Oops, gotta run, the timer on the Bass-o-matic just went off. Fish stew tonight.

#7172 of 9748 Re: Wow, try to get a day's work done.... [habitat1] by cdnpinhead

Nov 15, 2012 (4:47 pm)

Replying to: habitat1 (Nov 15, 2012 2:40 pm)
It's kind of fun reading this without having to sign up for a pay-per-view account.
 
Up to a point, perhaps. It's even more fun not reading most of it. You can get through this board in a hurry if you look only for the posts from others.
 
Thanks for being one of them. Overall, this is an interesting board, given that caveat.

#7173 of 9748 Re: Wow, try to get a day's work done.... [habitat1] by ruking1

Nov 15, 2012 (4:48 pm)

Replying to: habitat1 (Nov 15, 2012 2:40 pm)
You would be a better candidate !

#7174 of 9748 Re: Wow, try to get a day's work done.... [cdnpinhead] by Stever@Edmunds HOST

Nov 15, 2012 (5:48 pm)

Replying to: cdnpinhead (Nov 15, 2012 4:47 pm)
We probably should link this one to Auto News, but it's more of a fans discussion. And it has been too quiet the last few months. The host over there drives a big honking rig. And we don't let KC forget it, lol.
 
Diesels in the News

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