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<blockquote data-quote="Floridacargocat" data-source="post: 805329" data-attributes="member: 6168"><p>Suggest to "google/bing/yahoo/etc." "Ford Europe diesel cars" and you will find quite a little bit of info such as</p><p><a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/diesel/4330313" target="_blank">http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/diesel/4330313</a> (this is as of 2009).</p><p>Key challenges in the USA iare emission standards (California), class action law suits, mentality of consumers.</p><p>American car companies do have the know-how (via their European subsidiaries), but smaller cars with less than 150 hp and "relatively high proces" are simply not fancy enough to be promoted. In the US, it is still "the bigger, the better" (and it is also better for the bottom line of the car companies and oil companies).</p><p>UPS does have experience with fuel-efficient package cars (diesel or diesel-hybrid or more advanced cars such as compressed gas/hydrogen), and they are quite capable for autobahn-runs at speeds > 65 mph (104 km/h; have seen it myself, trailing a UPS car at > 110 km/h).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Floridacargocat, post: 805329, member: 6168"] Suggest to "google/bing/yahoo/etc." "Ford Europe diesel cars" and you will find quite a little bit of info such as [URL]http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/alternative-fuel/diesel/4330313[/URL] (this is as of 2009). Key challenges in the USA iare emission standards (California), class action law suits, mentality of consumers. American car companies do have the know-how (via their European subsidiaries), but smaller cars with less than 150 hp and "relatively high proces" are simply not fancy enough to be promoted. In the US, it is still "the bigger, the better" (and it is also better for the bottom line of the car companies and oil companies). UPS does have experience with fuel-efficient package cars (diesel or diesel-hybrid or more advanced cars such as compressed gas/hydrogen), and they are quite capable for autobahn-runs at speeds > 65 mph (104 km/h; have seen it myself, trailing a UPS car at > 110 km/h). [/QUOTE]
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