Interesting article in US mag Car and Driver.....
Did other BR-ers know that the Merc 270 CDI engine is not sold in 5 US states due to it not passing their emiisions legislation, and that by 2006 the other 44 states will be using the same criteria?
No wonder Diesel hasn't caught on across the pond.
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Yeah I knew - and the Touareg V10 TDI was most recently branded the most polluting car on sale in the US. I think they need to sort their idea of polluting...
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I think they need to sort their idea of polluting...
The Merc and the VW are foreign, therefore they are polluting
American cars are not polluting: they are merely exercising their Freedom.
It's very worrying that some people don't seem to understand these things.
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Must be particulatephobia. funny how the people who write requlations get fussed by a little bit of dust but don't care much about carbon monoxide etc....
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But is`nt diesel more polluting than petrol?
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But is`nt diesel more polluting than petrol?
depends what you measure. More particukates, less of other stuff (can't remember which stuff!)
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It's particulates that affect asthma sufferers apparently and are also harmful to others. Which given the amount of lorries that I see belching black smoke tends to point towards where the pollution is coming from. I think their is a piece about this on the ABD site.
Jim
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There's some argument on how much of an effect this has - all down to the size of the particles basiclly the average diesel produces fairly large particles which apparently don't settle as deeply in the lungs as the finer stuff - can't remeber where the study on this was though.
Remeber that pollution isn't just about what you can see - a petrol engine produces more invisible nasties (low level ozone, carbon monoxide etc.) than a diesel.
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