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Old 04-15-2013, 09:43 AM
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It's strange how fuel types have changed over the years, but in the UK petrol consumption has dropped over 25% over the last few years, partly due to the cost of fuel, partly due to a switch to smaller engines 1,000cc turbocharged), but mainly due to the massive swing to diesel power across all cars. More than 50% of all new cars being registered use diesel power.

With the diesel markets elsewhere around the world outside the US becoming ever larger, and the challenges of getting multiple engines approved by both State and Federal Regulators (the EU has just one for the entire area) it's hardly surprising that BMW have limited the range on offer. Other manufacturers may well be doing the same. The costs of multiple testing regimes would be (and probably is) prohibitive.

In the EU the 35d was phased out in 2010 and replaced with the cleaner and more efficient 40d, and now the M50d versions. We also have standard and performance diesels on the forecourt too.

I guess that until the car user market demands that forecourts offer diesel on all forecourts the US is in a Catch22 situation.
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