I am very encouraged by what................

[DevilGirl]

One reason I have seen is that there seems to be a stigma attached to diesels here. Not sure why, but there appears to be.

I have seen/read about the Chevy Cruze to come in diesel, I believe in 2014, but I could be wrong on the year.

I had heard rumors of the Mazda CX-5 (small SUV) coming in diesel, but it hasn't made it here yet. When I was visiting a VW/Mazda dealer, my husband (huge diesel fan, owns 2 VW diesel cars) asked about the CX-5. The answer we got was that they were running tests to figure out how to have it meet our emission standards (due to CA, higher standards here than Europe, or at least that's what we've been led to believe) under the clean diesels but also have the 50+ (I think, but could have been 40+) mpg they are getting in Europe.

That was either late last year or early this year. I was at the same dealership again 2 weeks ago and it was confirmed again for me that the CX-5 was going to be coming over here in diesel format.

Perhaps after other manufacturers see how the Cruze and CX-5 due here, maybe they will bring other cars over as well...