I agree this has gotten more serious than it deserves to be, but I think you also gave diesels a bad rap that they do not deserve. Just because there is not a 50-state diesel less than a year after it even became possible does not mean that diesels are horrible, polluting engines. Of all pollutants only NOx is not far below CA emissions requirements. I don't call that a dirty, polluting engine, I call it a clean engine with an NOx problem. Unfortunatly it doesn't matter how much you reduce all the other pollutants, you still can't exceed even one.
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Originally Posted by fshagan
You can not import any new European diesel car into California and register it (cars with over a certain mileage are exempt from the "must be clean" import rules).
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Not quite true. You can lease a brand new E320 Bluetec diesel in California right now. Check with your local MB dealer if you don't believe me.
That "filthy, polluting, planet-destroying" comment might have been construed as ironic banter if you had not paired it with "Europeans must not care about the environment; they have been using dirty diesel engines for years...".