This is an entertaining thread looking at it from the other side of the fence. I really wish I could go and buy an F150 Raptor to contrast the workaday diesel 4x4s I drive for a living. More and more cars over here are diesel, I think it accounts for over 50% of new car sales. Some manufacturers have completely dropped the petrol variants of some models. My BMW X1 is one such example, only available with a range of 2l diesels.
But interestingly, the tide is starting turn against diesels. In the UK, diesel popularity was really driven not by their economy, but by the lower CO2 emissions. Because CO2 is/was supposed to be the cause of climate change, you are rewarded with various tax incentives for buying diesels, especially if you are provided a car as a benefit by your employer. But just this last month, both London and Paris have declared they want to ban diesels in the city, or at least heavily penalise them due to NOX emissions which have reached hazardous levels, and so the pendulum begins to swing back towards petrol....
Anyway here's my work cars from the last decade, all diesel....
Range Rover with BMW straight 6, can't remember if it was 2.5l or 3l
Two generations of Shogun with 3.2l 4 cylinder
Nissan Pathfinder with 2.5l 4 cylinder
Two generations of Land Rover Discovery. Both V6 diesel shared with Jaguar cars. Early one is a 2.7l, the later one a 3.0l
Toyota Land Cruiser with 3l 4 cylinder
Mitsubishi
L200 with I think a 2.5l 4 cylinder
) in this respect. I'm obviously a diesel fan, but all I want to see in the market is a Level Playing Field for diesels.
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