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Originally Posted by fshagan
Europeans must not care about the environment; they have been using dirty diesel engines for years that can't pass the smog laws in this country, and then they lecture us about carbon emissions.
VW and BMW worked on getting diesels approved for the US, and VW is supposed to have a Rabbit/Golf to be sold her by the end of the year, but they have already pushed back the release date as they try to make it clean enough.
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You are completely wrong. Almost no European diesels were imported into the US over the past decade because US diesel fuel had too high a sulfur content, which would have trashed the European cars' advanced emission systems and possibly damaged the engines themselves.
Because new EPA regulations went into effect in late 2007 that required US oil companies to switch to making only ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD), European and Japanese manufacturers can now start to import the advanced diesels they have had for years.
So it wasn't that European diesels were so dirty they couldn't meet US EPA standards, but that they couldn't do it on lousy US fuel. It is simply untrue that the Europeans have been using "dirty diesel" engines for years.