Sweetsixteen
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The current EU stance on diesel cars has not gone down at all well with motor manufactures who are gearing up to seriously kick back at EU politicians who for years have pushed the benefits of diesel over petrol.
Paris is the first city to talk about banning diesel cars but the French government owns a big stake in Peugeot which most of peugeots sales come from diesel cars and Diesel engine technology.
Basically this attack on diesel in France is very much cutting off their own nose.
What I'm saying is don't count your chickens, at this stage their are some rumblings about diesel being bad but their is so much weight in the form of manufactures and share holders and oil companies who will back diesel to the bitter end so I can't see diesel cars going anywhere soon.
The 1.3 Diesel engine is a fantastic little engine which half a dozen other manufactures are buying and selling well in their own cars while fiat are selling the 500 as a little town run around better suited to the petrol engines, but if you expect to do more than 30 miles a day then the you can't really do better than the 1.3 diesel.
Plus that 1.3 diesel is very much under tuned so really opens up with a little tinkering to far more power and torque putting those petrol engines to shame
Good reasoning all round, on both sides of the argument, but it reminds me of the scientist who was asked if the rate of technological progress would now slow down as it seems we have made all the big discoveries already. He said that we are only scratching the surface, and there is much more yet to discover.
The questioner then replied, ‘That means that the extent of our present knowledge is only surpassed by the extent of our present ignorance.’
Don’t reckon diesel development has reached its peak yet. The major manufacturers are pouring so much into diesel development that we may be a little premature in arguing that it's a lost cause.