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On-topic: Dieselgate made me go out and get the closest thing I could find to the flat-four diesel Beetles from the 1950s.
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Well, considering that many German companies such as Hatz (which licensed Agrale to manufacture some of its designs for the Brazilian market) and Deutz were more successful with their air-cooled Diesels, it is in fact quite surprising that VW didn't achieve similar results. But anyway, had a Diesel-powered Beetle been more successful, I guess there would be no excuse to the ban on light-duty Diesels in Brazil during the '70s (an effort to develop either biodiesel or straight vegetable oil usage as fuel, similar to the defunct ProÁlcool, would have been more likely).