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Subject: Re: [OM] [ot] for all the car nuts, petrol heads
From: siddiq <iddibhai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:37:08 -0800
1/6/2003 4:24:37 PM, "Ford Prefect" <f.prefect@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> the house. pity we dont yet get the turbo deisels they do across the pond
>(but they are coming for 2004, confirmed by MB USA (E300) & BMW USA (330D)).
>can't afford ANY of the listed, but hey....
>
>What on earth do you want a Turdo Desisel for? they are slow smelly noisy
>and very polluting (in all except CO) need servicing twice as often too and
>generally vastly inferior to their equivalent sized petrol / LPG
>equivalents. Now gas is the way to go near 0 emissions, half price fuel, and
>need servicing half as often, is quieter if anything, and doubles the
>lifespan of the engine withe minimal perfomance loss.

they make gobs of torque down low, good for stop/go driving or passing power 
w/o revving the snot out of them. good mileage, etc etc. they aren't any more 
smelly or stinky or slow, if 
properly made.


/S
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