Let's start with a few quotes that are typical:
"We hear of diesel's great popularity in Europe. Don't be misled. Those folks don't love diesels any more than we do. It's the fuel cost, stupid. "
Diesel haters will always be so. Yeah, yeah, it's because of the price, stupid.
I'd like to see the face of this particuliar writer when one of my buddies TDI pass a VR6 and the poor guy can't keep up...
"Bland is bad in cars. Diesels don't know how to be bland. The VW gives you a little of that Peterbilt clatter and that indomitable turbo torque way down at grunting speed. You get to slog around in the ever-widening oil slick at the U-serve, too, same as real truckers, and you'll notice that clingy petro smell every time you get behind the wheel. Diesels have character. A few of us really get off on them. It's not explainable."
As usual, they make noise, they smell bad, they smoke...and then?
And then? And then? And then? And then? (If you've seen "Dude, where's my car?", you'd understand).
They never say that like the Prius, the TDI is the only other vehicule in this test to have a drive by wire system.
They don't say that on a twisty road it can out run any of these hybrids (no pun intended here guys), because it is German engineered.
I like the pic with the Echo on the verge of slipping... :lol:
They don't say a lot of things, but what pisses me off the most is that they compare "brand new" to "brand new".
A diesel is fully broken in at 60 000 miles.
Before that it'll consume more, normal thing. <_<
Why don't they put an Insight instead of the Echo?
Anyway, my opinion on this lousy article.
