Posted by wisbaker on June 08, 2012 at 13:33:03 from (207.118.182.222):
In Reply to: Diesel F150 posted by Howard H. on June 08, 2012 at 06:44:36:
First and foremost GM killed the light vehicle diesel market with their Oldsmobile diesel, (look a gas engine that burns diesel, well okay if you can keep it running), then some of the granola eaters in California, Vermont, Taxachutis and New York layed emission requirements out that further made light duty diesels economically unfeasible. With the market having not quit recovered from the Olds diesel fiasco the Feds decided that the California emissions for diesels were a good idea, driving the last few survivors (VW, Mercedes-Benz and Jeep) out of the market. Fuel squeeze IV brought a new round of clean diesels back from VW, Mercedes and Jeep (yes for a while you could get a Mercedes V-6 diesel in a Grand Cherokee) but then there was the awful corporate divorce so the folks at Chrysler don't do that Mercedes diesel thing any more, Fiat doesn't have clean diesel technology yet. As for 1/2 ton trucks GM did them for a while they were never big sellers so Ford, Chrysler and Toyota saw it wasn't worth the effort. Oh yes the 1/2 tons or 8600 GVW and less have more stringent emission requirement disadvantaging diesels in that market.
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