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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 1024509" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>This is not the first diesel powered VW...they made diesel VW Rabbits back about 30 years ago. And VW is not the only passenger car currently made that uses diesel engines. Diesel powered passenger cars are very popular in Europe.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think Americans do not care for diesel powered passenger cars stems from the GM/Oldsmobile fiasco 30 years ago when GM took a conventional gasoline 350 CID engine block and converted it to a diesel and started selling them in some models of Oldsmobile. Within a few years owners of those Oldsmobiles where a very angry bunch when their cars broke down and repairs to the diesel engine were so expensive...most found it cheaper to replace the engine with a standard gasoline engine.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Previous attempts to convert a gasoline engine to operate as a diesel have been miserable failures. The problem is always that the engine block of a diesel must be much stronger than gasoline engine block and needs to be designed from the beginning to be a diesel engine.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ford lives and dies by their own decisions, and so far they seem to be doing very well without a diesel powered passenger car.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 1024509, member: 52972"] This is not the first diesel powered VW...they made diesel VW Rabbits back about 30 years ago. And VW is not the only passenger car currently made that uses diesel engines. Diesel powered passenger cars are very popular in Europe. I think Americans do not care for diesel powered passenger cars stems from the GM/Oldsmobile fiasco 30 years ago when GM took a conventional gasoline 350 CID engine block and converted it to a diesel and started selling them in some models of Oldsmobile. Within a few years owners of those Oldsmobiles where a very angry bunch when their cars broke down and repairs to the diesel engine were so expensive...most found it cheaper to replace the engine with a standard gasoline engine. Previous attempts to convert a gasoline engine to operate as a diesel have been miserable failures. The problem is always that the engine block of a diesel must be much stronger than gasoline engine block and needs to be designed from the beginning to be a diesel engine. Ford lives and dies by their own decisions, and so far they seem to be doing very well without a diesel powered passenger car. ...Rich [/QUOTE]
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