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GM To Sell A Diesel Car In The US – B&B: Which One Will It Be?
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Paul Niedermeyer
(IC: employee)
Published: September 27th, 2010
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Thanks to a tweet from Ward’s Auto, we now know that GM Vice Chairman Tom Stevens has spilled the beans at the Directions in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research conference that a GM diesel passenger car is coming to the US. What was notably missing is a nameplate. Your mission is to come up with which car it will be.
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Published September 27th, 2010 3:04 PM
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If GM is serious, it will be a Chevrolet. Otherwise, who cares?
Another GM diesel car would only be a good idea if the dealership placed a "Diesel for Dummies" book in the glove box.
the logical choice would be the Regal, probably in wagon format, since that's a very popular style with the VW TDI cultists. The interesting thing will be to see in GM picks up on VW's miss and makes sure a euro import diesel will live on US spec fuel. The US wear scar spec is more abrasive than the the Euro one. I want to say it's on the order of about 25% more abrasive, so major fuel system revisions may be needed. In any event, diesel is kinda dead. The technology is good, but the EPA has effectively killed it. Take some time and look at what VW had to do to get the TDI motors to pass the current emissions requirements. It's like Rube Goldberg had an apoplectic fit from radiator to tail pipe under the car. Not interested in having a $2000 revese flow canooter valve replaced 6 months out of warranty, thankyouverymuch.
@JoeAverage: Very true - I can't waste my time with that -- "Had me one o 'dem Chivee Maliblues, a '76 I think. Doggone thing never did run right. Switched to Hondas after that POS blew up on a family fishin' trip. Neighbor had an Olds 88 diesel, even worse. Now they're gonna put a diesel in a Maliblue? No sir, u'll never git me buyin' a car from Guvmint Motors."