Cruze To Get Turbo Diesel

[Lewis]

i had an eighties ford focus that had a mazda diesel small truck engine in it (the car was sold for a couple of years- it had 2 oil filters!) that got 58 mpg on the highway without any special driving.

of cause the car was light with no safety equipment and amenities and slow as paint drying (no turbos back then on the fords or vw diesels) but boy did it stretch a gallon of fuel!

and in those days diesel was cheaper than regular gasoline.

if the cruze diesel can get close to those results it'll sell like hotcakes imo because there are many people like me that would love a diesel small car but know from bitter experience the horrible repair records, crooked dealers and inflated price of the VW diesels which are the only game in town right now.

our relatives in Holland have a yaris diesel- quite a fuel miser since they pay the equivilant of $9/gallon there!

that kind of fuel savings with toyota reliability = a very very economical car.