Originally Posted by nthach

I think Toyota needs to buy out the Volkswagen Group.

I personally have a soft spot for VWs, I would consider getting a MKIV Golf if something happened to my LS400...

Originally Posted by mmarshall

Never mind the Phaeton........perhaps VW's best marketing point, if they would just stress it more...... is that they are currently the ONLY manufacturer in the American market that offers a significant line of passenger-car diesels. Though they are not available in all 50 states, where they ARE available, they offer hybrid-style mileage WITHOUT hybrid-style complexity or heavy battery packs. Diesels are low-polluting in CO and NOX, but have significant solid-particule emisions.....in other words, " soot " . However, as has been noted here on CL so many times, that could change with next year's EPA-mandated clean, low-sulfur diesel fuel here in the U.S. and with the new urea-injection systems diesel enginers are working on.

Originally Posted by TheRupp

That's just the switchblade key doing the talking

Originally Posted by nthach

In the Bay Area, all our newer buses are equipped with a device called a Cleaire Longview, which is a diesel oxidation cat with aftertreatment, it works by injecting more diesel fuel before the cat to burn up PM matter, while the cat takes care of NOx and residual PM emissions. Check it out, it's pretty cool how it works:

http://www.cleaire.com/site/products/al.html

Originally Posted by mmarshall

Thanks...that is an interesting device. It can only help the emerging diesel market here.