It’s taken this long for an American car manufacturer to produce a diesel-powered car. And it had to be Government Motors.
Better to get the VW Jetta TDI at 58mpg with a steering wheel we know won’t fall off.
I wish they’d put it in a Tiguan and make the Tiguan less fugly. I’m dying for a small or mid-size diesel SUV. Diesel is like a hybrid for people who can do math.
Do what, GM produced diesel powered cars back in the eighties and they screwed that up royally as usual, they took a 350 olds gas motor and converted it to a diesel, the first ones they built blew the oil pans off because the wonderful engineers forgot to include a sump vacuum system. by the time they had all the factory screw ups fixed it had such a bad name no-one wanted to buy it.
Government Motors' Oldsmobile division did dive in head first in the diesel market in the 1980s, selling over one million units, but found there was no water in the pool when they tried to modify gasoline V-8 engine blocks to run as diesels, and failed.
That experience with hundreds of thousands of vehicles needing engine swaps supposedly soured the US public on diesels for decades.