Date:         Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:35:47 +1300
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: Zetec diesel/Euro Diesels
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>Exactly, if we only had to have diesels certified to Euro 5 they'd be
>here already.
>
>Jim Akiba
>
>On 2/20/08, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>>  "Chris S." <mrpolak@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>   > Some of you already know, but Europe is chock full of clean diesel
>>   > engines.  Even Chrysler has been selling the 300C with a diesel
>>   > engine there, but not in the USofA.  Chrysler finally put a diesel
>>   > in their Jeeps here.  Honda sells diesels there too.  We only get
>>   > the now-even-larger V8s.  Pick up a copy of Top Gear magazine to
>>   > check them out.
>>
>>
>>  I don't think they are so much "clean" as that Europe does not have
>>   the draconian emissions requirements that the USA has had for the last
>  >  few decades.

Renault has come up with a particle-filter with a periodic
flashburner. No black soot. I think it has a cat as well.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
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