[gcb]

Not suggesting a 50s diesel. But anything up to the price of a prius would be better.

Point is, even a gasoline suv pollutes less than a prius overall if you don't use it that often.

Just arguing that as an engineer, you should look at other solutions instead of jumping the bandwagon. Let pointy hairy bosses and ruby on rails guys do it instead.

[SkyMarshal]

*>Just arguing that as an engineer, you should look at other solutions instead of jumping the bandwagon.

That's what I'm doing. I really want a diesel for my next car, but a clean diesel. Just wondering if there are any less expensive options than a new or relatively new Audi.

[gcb]

Previous diesels were awful because of the stuff we had in the diesel itself. The engines are still the same, mostly. any year car you get that still have good compression will give you a clean burn (if it's too lean, you get too much nitrogen oxide, to rich you get carbon and shoot).

if you want to go the extra mile you can either buy the hamburguer smelling vegetable conversion kits (too much hassle to refil imho) or you can spend extra and put a modern catalytic system in the old car and be done with it.

a 2000 VW, Audi, mbez will do wonders and cost from 6 to 12k.