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Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
12. There isn't much of one
Wed Jun 13, 2012, 10:21 AM
Jun 2012

The VW Passat and Jetta TDI are the most popular. Audi and BMW have offered a few diesel models available from time to time. The only domestic manufacturer I can think of is Jeep, if you can call what they make a car, but even they don't make diesel engines domestically anymore. And actually the reason why there aren't more diesels in the US is because it's more difficult and expensive to meet passenger car emission standards here because each state can have it's own. VW had to suspend the importation of diesels for a couple of years when we changed our standards until they could start manufacturing models that met those standards. They were still selling them in Europe. Diesel is also more expensive now that clean fuel requirements have changed.

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