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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
If I would ever own a Prius, I still believe I'd try a Diesel conversion anyway.
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Such conversion would be pretty foolish.
It'd never be as smooth as the original.
It'd not return the investment - once you're already in Prius MPG territory, you're also in low-return-on-investment territory. It uses so little, that it's hard to get any gains.
It'd pollute more, by putting out more harmful pollutants - NOx and PM.
I can only tell diesels are NOT the solution, however attractive they may seem to US drivers.
You guys only see the inflated MPG numbers.
On this end of the Atlantic, we get to see and live the problems with these so-called clean & green diesels - but they are neither
Europe is already starting to move away from diesels - even despite the largely CO2 based tax-politics.
Don't duplicate our mistakes.