a diesel BMW is a conventionally powered vehicle? Do they even sell diesels here? I don’t think so.
Because the evironazis won’t let them into our country.
This is a UK article, but I believe they are going to start selling diesel X6s here in the States later in the year.
Diesels have been getting 50+MPG for decades....
Hybrids are a waste of money and a dead technology. They are not green, in fact they cause more damage to the environment over their lifetime than do traditional cars with bad fuel economy.
If you want good fuel economy just buy a turbo deisel injection engined vehicle. Let the libs have their overpriced tin cans.
Diesels have been getting 50+MPG for decades....
Hybrids are a waste of money and a dead technology. They are not green, in fact they cause more damage to the environment over their lifetime than do traditional cars with bad fuel economy.
If you want good fuel economy just buy a turbo deisel injection engined vehicle. Let the libs have their overpriced tin cans.
Soon. They had to come into compliance with new diesel emmission laws in the US. Mercedes calls their version BlueTec. More manufacturers should be coming out with their diesel engines soon.
Mercedes-Benz Preps a Trio of 50-State Diesel SUVs
By Matthew Phenix March 17, 2008 | 12:06:25 PMCategories: Diesel, New Vehicles
In the biggest clean-diesel push by a European automaker yet, Mercedes-Benz is set to roll out three Bluetec sport-utility vehicles, joining the E320 Bluetec sedan in showrooms. The 2009 GL320, ML320, and R320 Bluetec models (pictured here, left to right), supplant the older-tech CDI diesel models in the Mercedes range. They employ a 3.0-liter V-6 with a variable nozzle turbocharger and common-rail direct injection, producing 208 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque, and matched to a seven-speed manu-matic transmission.
The company is claiming the diesels will improve fuel economy by 20 to 30 percent, and return a cruising range of up to 600 miles. As for performance, we enjoyed a brief but informative drive in the largest of the three, the GL320, not to mention an extended visit with the E320 Bluetec, we can say that the 3.0-liter engine is startlingly quiet and truly V-8-like in its pulling power (it has more torque than the top-drawer GL550’s 5.5-liter gasoline V-8).
Although the E320 Bluetec brought to market the first stages of Mercedes’ clean-diesel technology — including a particulate filter and an oxidation catalytic converter — these new vehicles introduce AdBlue urea-injection to further mitigate noxious nitrogen oxides. Unlike the outgoing CDI models, which aren’t for sale in California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, or Vermont, the new Bluetec diesels are 50-state-legal. They reach showrooms this
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/03/we-drive-the-20.html
While honeymooning in Scotland last August I rented a Volvo XC station wagon with a standard shift and a diesel. It was very peppy for a diesel, and averaged in the high 30's for fuel mileage. I asked, and they do not sell them here, or I'd be in the market for one. My new wife's lease is up in June on her Nissan Murano, and we're looking at a Mercedes R class diesel (28 mpg advertised).
My daily driver is a 2001 Ford Super Duty Diesel which I've had tweaked with an aftermarket turbo wheel, larger stainless exhaust, and a performance chip. It puts out 500 or so horses and gets about 20mpg when I don't get on it too hard.
Diesels are pretty common in Europe — the article is from the Times of London