There's nothing like a rant from an old friend to focus the mind. We recently read a profanity-laced note from a high school pal excoriating all the major automakers for not selling small, high-mileage diesel cars and trucks in the U.S. We referred him to an article about why we can't buy small European diesel cars in the States. After further...

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Another Great article! Way to go db
I think it would be great to have small diesel powerplants in the future for personal vehicles. It would totaly trump the Prius! What if they went to a diesel hybrid!!!! You could not go wrong. Except for the Computer controll problems, and the costly bateries going bad after a few years. Ehh they will figure it out.