Yeah I know what you mean about getting behind a 60's V-8 engine car. You smell all kinds of stuff. To me it mostly smells like unburned or partially combusted gas and oily blowby gasses. Kind of amazing how there is basically no odor at all with the modern car engine. I remember seeing in service stations the posters about it being a federal crime to remove or disable emissions equipment with $25k fine. And being threatened about that for something on one of my cars over the years. I believe that in general European emissions laws are more about reducing total greenhouse gasses vs US wanting very low NOx, among other differences. That's why they have incentivized diesels and it's hard to get many of their very nice diesel engine cars to be accepted by US regulators. Edward |
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