Re: OT:Hey Europeans - which diesel car in Europe gets the best fuel mileage?

"Andreas Långström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Jeff York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Dale \"Friggin\" Carnegie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>I got stuck, and I mean stuck; behind a diesel Golf this morning...
> >>
> >>Spewing soot like a 19th century locomotive, it turned the freshly
> >>fallen snow on the hood of my car sooty-London-black in the 30sec it
> >>took to get around it...  And diesel is more expensive than
> >>high-octane in these parts.
> >>
> >>...What a bloody farce.
> >
> >OK..  So we've established that where you are (a) you have shit spec
> >old diesels, and (2) petrol's very cheap..
> >
> >So fucking what??
> >
> >It bears no relation to the experience we have with diesels in the
> >more civilised part of the planet.
>
> To be fair to the poor bugger (the golf driver that is), In southern
> Europe, especially rural southern France and Italy, the diesel quality
> is not as it is in northern Europe. IIRC, the "purer" diesel has less
> sulphur in it, reducing soot particles. So we might add that where the
> bugger (frigid here this time) lives (iii)they run their diesles on
> bunker oil.
>
> And then we have winter diesel of course...
>
> /Andreas
>

Do they not have an annual/bi-annual car test over there either?
Here we have a "National Car Test" where the car is checked every two years,
including the emission levels.

Here we also have "washed" diesel, but its not necessarily cleaner than
regular diesel ;-)