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Originally Posted by Autobahnschleicher
If your commute is mostly highway and you want an efficient ICE vehicle for that, why are you looking at 90s gasoiline powered cars instead of diesels?
In this particular use case something like a Passat B5 1.9 TDi would be ideal as it is highly efficient for highway driving due to its aerodynamic shape and very economical 1,9L TDi engine.
If you're willing to go smaller, consider something like the Lupo 1.2 TDi or 1.4 TDi.
Beating 50 mpg is pretty easy with all of them and they are pretty reliable.
The Passat should get you into the 60 mpg+ range, the Lupo in the 70 mpg+ range.
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In short: cost and availability. Diesel fuel is expensive here, most stations don't have it, there are very few diesel cars on the road, and most diesel vehicles sell at a huge premium. To my knowledge there is no smaller TDI than VW's 1.9, and they're really not all that easy to find.