What are we gonna do?!?!?!?!?!
Lots and lots of hand-wringing over the oil crisis, how much we use here in the US, bla bla bla.
How about this? A car that gets 35MPG city, 55 highway with existing technology? Or an SUV that does 23 city, 36 highway? Or, if you want to go fast with a diesel (0-100KPH in 6.8 sec, top end of 155mph) you can get 31 city, 55 highway. Nothing to do, really, except sell it here in the US.
It's diesel. Plain old, boring diesel cars. Very popular in Europe. They're not noisy, smoky or lousy performers like they used to be.
The cars that do this?
The 35/55 car is the Dodge Caliber, UK version, with a 2.0L diesel.
The 23/36 SUV is the Jeep "Cherokee", UK version (we call it the Liberty in the US) with a 2.8L diesel.
The performance sedan? BMW 330d, with a 3.0L diesel.
How about this? A car that gets 35MPG city, 55 highway with existing technology? Or an SUV that does 23 city, 36 highway? Or, if you want to go fast with a diesel (0-100KPH in 6.8 sec, top end of 155mph) you can get 31 city, 55 highway. Nothing to do, really, except sell it here in the US.
It's diesel. Plain old, boring diesel cars. Very popular in Europe. They're not noisy, smoky or lousy performers like they used to be.
The cars that do this?
The 35/55 car is the Dodge Caliber, UK version, with a 2.0L diesel.
The 23/36 SUV is the Jeep "Cherokee", UK version (we call it the Liberty in the US) with a 2.8L diesel.
The performance sedan? BMW 330d, with a 3.0L diesel.
posted by Andy in San Diego and Elsewhere at 6/22/2006 03:58:00 PM
1 Comments:
Sounds like a good idea. All the cars/pickup trucks around here with diesels seem to make a wonderful knocking noise though they don't seem to be dirty (i.e. busses). Then I'd have to get engine heaters for the cars :(
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