D4D Diesel for USA?

[Lewis]

I think all it would actually take is one major Japanese manufacturer to bring in a clean diesel hatchback and the others would follow suit when they see it sell because they all have the engines "on the shelf" so they'd only have to EPA certify them to bring them here. Acura was very close to doing that with the TSX if you believe the automotive press.

Volkswagen just doesn't have a good enough reputation for quality to break into the mainstream USA market with their diesels. If VW could build a Golf diesel to run as reliably as my Yaris with a competitive purchase price (which they presently don't have courtesy of their greedy dealerships that jack up the prices on their already overpriced diesel line) that's what I'd be in right now.

I just don't have the patience to be visiting their arrogant corrupt dealers on a regular basis to rebuy their crappy parts as they fail like all my friends with VWs do- not to mention what that does to the economics of fuel savings with the diesel engine.

I actually had a Rabbit diesel in the 1970s so I know from experience what the joy of the VW ownership experience entails.