I've done quite a bit of research over these things for various class projects and I think modern diesels are great for city cars and boring hatchbacks. They will happily trundle 300,000 miles at 30 miles an hour and they get great mileage. Most people who are prejudice against them remember the old Mercedes diesels of the 80s whose exhaust off the showroom floor was shortening the lifespan of everyone behind them with their giant black clouds of cancer. They were all crappy and slow. Now however, the life in diesel cars is much better. Emissions regulation on diesel cars (Not trucks, which will be a rant of it's own) is far more strict than back in the 80s. This means that the black wind of death is no longer as much of a factor as the emissions from clean diesels are about what gasoline engines produce. They do still have the problem of turning the back of the car black-assed if you don't wash it. The bad thing is they are still sickeningly slow even with turbos and guys, you're not impressing any girls when you pull up in a Jetta that sounds like a tractor. Maybe in the long run you will have some money saved up since these clean diesels routinely get mileage in the 35 to 45 mpg range. Then you can buy something, well, better. They're good cars. Good, boring, ugly, slow, cars.
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