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Old 01-13-2009, 02:51 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RH77 View Post
It smoked like a chimney and puzzled patients and other passengers. "Why does it stink and sound like it has no power? It's really loud too..."
Yeah, that was sort of my point :-) If diesels can now be built that don't do that, why don't they go into the trucks? Mercedes has a share of the small commercial truck market in the US, yet I haven't noticed that their trucks make less smoke & noise than the competition.

Of course we understand why the diesels in American pickup trucks smoke & clatter - basically the same reason a good many of their owners hang fake plastic testicles from the trailer hitch - but why haven't those clean, quiet diesels gone into semis & busses? Especially if they do get better fuel economy than the older designs.
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