Yep. US makers will not bother if they can't sell in CA. Foreign makers who have a lot of experience selling passenger diesel cars in the rest of the world will not import those into the US if they can't sell them in CA. Subaru was recently quoted, in regards to their new boxer diesel, that chances of them of selling it in the US were nearly nonexistent unless they could sell it in all 50 states. Allan
"Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> said: > RE: Diesel > What I've gathered from various discussions on diesel is that there is > (or > was) one major obstacle: California. For many years California flat > outlawed any new diesels. With that major, major market closed to the > auto > makers there was no economic way to develop and start marketing diesel > powered passenger vehicles. I understand that California has changed now > so > who knows what will emerge. > |
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