<< Better yet. My friends VW Golf TDI diesel regularly gets 50mpg at highway speeds.... 75 mph in Utah. No hybrid can do that.
The future is turbo diesels... not hybrids. >>
The future is more than twenty years ago when I bought my first of the many European turbo diesels I have owned.
A Merc turbo diesel from back then, even, would get almost 40 MPG while cruising all day at 25% over even the Montana speed limit [Then as fast as you were willing to go knowing that if you were caught you'd be fined $5.00, literally on the spot, for possibly pissing off the Jimmah Cartah liberals by "using too much gas"] as would my wife's early 80s Peugeot turbo diesel.
Modern European turbo diesels get more than 60 MPG as a matter of course.
Modern European turbo diesels get more than 60 MPG as a matter of course."
I have read that 40 to 70 percent of new vehicles sold in Europe now are diesels.
We do NOT get diesels in the US for BMW, Audi, VW, Mercedes, etc. But they make some good, high performance motors.
And Audi just won the 12 Hours of Sebring in a Turbo Diesel motor--very, very fast reliable race car.
Both diesel and turbocharge technologies yield high torque at low rpms. Stump pullers.