These bullshirt NOx rules were never about any efforts to clean up any air
I guess that diesel BMW I drove a couple of weeks ago must have been a figment of my imagination. Same with the diesel Mercedes E-class and the Chevy Cruze diesel.
VW/Audi are not the only ones selling passenger car diesels in the US, but they're on a very short list.
Chevy sold ONE model in miniscule numbers since 1985, BMW sold no diesel autos from 1985 to ~2010....
MB sold one or two models over the last 3 decades, no lower price models....
Not a single car make other than a few low end offerings from VW in one model from late 89 MY to 92 MY offered a diesel powered auto class vehicle from 1986 to 1996.....
VWAG sold along with everyone else sold no auto class diesel offerings from 1992 to 1996! VWAG sold a very few diesel Passats, a couple of Golfs and a very few Jettas from 96-early 98. VWAG began to offer more diesels but still in very low numbers from 98 to 04.
In O4 light duty auto class emissions strickened again not to give cleaner air to make it harder for anyone to attempt to offer diesel power in any auto, banning the diesel offering by CARB's stupid ridiculous rules again which were never about giving cleaner air, how could they from the non-existent diesel for the last two decades at that point!
MB even stopped selling diesels here for years until 1999 when they tried to re-introduce a diesel, ONE diesel powered model!
No Fords, Chryslers, Toyotas, Nissans, Mitsubishis, No one other than the above listed even attempted to sell an auto class model with diesel power from 1985-86 Model year up to 2009-2010. And then the offerings were only a model or two from the die-hard german auto makes!
So no, there were no vehicles sold for close 30 years to meet these ridiculously over-stringent stupid useless light duty diesel power in the auto class emissions rules....So these rules on non existent for over 3 decades models were political efforts to bolster electrics while trying to make it impossible for any auto make to produce a diesel powered offering to compete with these pie in the sky offerings........
These bullshirt NOx rules were never about any efforts to clean up any air, how could they have they have been since no auto make has sold auto class diesels here in any numbers for over 3 decades now!!!!!!
