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

Dale "Friggin" Carnegie wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:14:06 -0600, "Frank...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Spongecake Brainpan wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:02:29 -0800, "Logan Spitznauer"
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>The one piggy backing on a flat bed lorry.
>>> 
>>> Just what is it that's behind this particularly European perversion of
>>> fitting filthy choking stuttering diesel motors to otherwise decent
>>> automobiles?  ...And, while were at it; the singularly English
>>> fetishism of "replica kit cars"?
>>
>>Don't know about the emissions but the diesel VW camper I drove to Le Mans
>>was indistingushable from a gasoline engine, except at idle. Then it had
>>the sound but never the smoke. Not once did I see any smoke and the smell
>>was rarely evident, even when I ran it for a half hour or so to charge the
>>battery.
> 
> 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.

I assume it was a new one we're talking about as the there is no question 
that the older ones were awful to be behind.

Admittedly I haven't paid much attention to them, but the fact that I 
haven't _had_ to pay any attention to them tells me that they've come a 
long way. I will be looking for them now though....You have piqued my 
curiosity.
 
-- 
Frank....H