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Originally Posted by Zoltan1
I was a bit surprised to see this. It is great to see GM putting Diesels back in passenger cars. However, with direct injection gas engines getting similar economy to Diesels, it would be tough to make a case to spend the extra money.
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I'm not aware of this being the case. I know DI Petrol is improving petrol engines but there are a few other factors to overcome before they are at the same economy level, unless there is other evidence ?
The same "smaller with higher boost" is coming to Diesels too - where a 1.6 4cyl would have been the minimum size in a Cruze sized car a couple of years ago a 1.4 or maybe quite soon a 1.2 3cyl will provide more or less the same performance with less fuel used. Vekke is building a 1.2 engined Audi A8 on here too
