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Originally Posted by redneck
It will never see the light of day in the U.S.A.
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Too bad Maruti pulled the plug entirely on Diesel vehicles. Well, even though this engine had been applied to more platforms than the 3-cylinder one fitted to the Smart ForTwo, which could be supposed to increase the economics of scale, it was phased out due to the implement of Bharat Stage 6 emission rules (had been only available with Bharat Stage 4 certification) after its availability was confined to the Super Carry trucklet. Well, considering the budget-constraints and weight saving measures regarding the development of this engine, it sounds quite stupid that so many excuses are made by European automakers in order to phase out most of their Diesel offers. The displacement-biased tax structure usually enforced outside the NAFTA zone would actually favor smaller turbodiesels such as those 0.8L ones, also due to their smaller packaging enabling some easy fitment of emissions-control devices now widespread such as the DPF and LNT (which is a better alternative to those small engines than SCR and easier to implement on lower-output and small-displacement engines). Doing the math, the 47hp/92lb.ft. version would be great even for some small cars available in my country which don't feature any Diesel version not even for export anymore...