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Originally Posted by RedDevil
I heard a Peugeot diesel go by the other day.
It purred like a cat. It sounded happy. It was noisy, but a good noise.
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That's just the problem, from my point of view. I don't want to hear diesels going by - I have enough of that from the dickhead neighbor's diesel pickup. Not that I particularly want to hear petrol engines going by, either, but unless de-mufflered they seem to run a lot quieter than diesels.
But going back to somewhere near the beginning of this, diesel and hybrid aren't mutually exclusive. Put an appropriately-sized diesel in an existing hybrid, or add a hybrid system to a diesel-engined vehicle, and you will see a significant jump in fuel economy. There are diesel hybrids out there: everything from UPS delivery trucks to earthmoving equipment:
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