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Originally Posted by patrick_g  Brian, From what I gathered on the news broadcast Mahindra (and other companies like VW, Mercedes, BMW, etc) have no problem meeting the current 50 state air quality standards with their newest diesels B-U-T California has a hangup regarding diesel emissions and may enact tougher standards essentially aimed at eliminating small diesels (SUV's pickups,family cars, etc) in California and if California won't take it the market is fragmented and the model will not be imported.
California's axe to grind is particulate emissions which are, like every other substance known to modern man including mother's milk, known by the state of California to cause cancer. The biggies named above have diesels that are really clean and satisfy current standards as well as those of the EU.
Maybe California should be its own country and leave the rest of us alone. I wouldn't mind seeing Boxer and Feinstein in the unemployment line.
Pat |
I couldn't agree more!!!
With the Tier IV engines and their particulate traps and regenerative whatchamacallitthingamajiggers, it's all a bunch of garbage to cause problems. That would be my main concern with them (not just the Mahindra trucks, but any Tier IV diesel with these "enviro friendly", "save the planet" bits of rubbish attached.
Save us from the good people!!