Kinda makes you long for a diesel SUV, doesn't it?
The Ford Excursion has a diesel option.
Yes, I have 3 diesels and would love to have a Ford Excursion with a Powerstroke. They don't get very good gas milage but they pull anything.
GOT ONE!!!!
Bought my 6.0 L Turbo-Diesel powered Ford Excursion after I "retired" my 3/4 ton Diesel Powered Suburban by bouncing it off the front end of a Freightliner.
I love my Diesel Powered SUV!!!
All four of my kids have them, and rave about them. The future belongs to diesel, and Hades belongs to the environmentalists.
I once raised caterpillars for moth and butterfly specimens. A tulip poplar grew next to a bus stop. The caterpillars would eat the diesel coated leaves but they all invariably died. Leaves from a tulip poplar across the street did not kill the caterpillars. I do think diesel exhaust is as bad as and worse than gasoline exhaust even before emission controls. The particulate matter is also very difficult for the lungs to deal with. One of the first rate triggers for threatening asthmatic episodes is when omne is caught in a blast of black diesel fumes and smut. This is a classic broncho constrictor. I believe diesel fumes are as dangerous as half the homicidal drivers of the "big rigs".