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Quick check local Lexus dealers have 51 LX570s on the lots. Starting at $90k.
Edit. I take it back, it was a 2008 LC. First year of the new body style.
2013 LX 570 2016 LS 460
The LC is great but I think it's way overpriced for what it is.
I still like my Unimog idea - not really a passenger vehicle, but more fun.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKBN0UL00320160107
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
VW Scandal Could Kill U.S. Diesel Market
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So yeah, there's a place of diesels, but not as they are--but as they could be.
EPA/CARB are loathed (defacto) to certify for B 100 engine passenger car specifications.
That was something I looked forward to. It is obvious why diesel makers discourage the use of Biodiesel. It creates more NOx the stuff we are currently fighting over.
An overwhelming number of studies show that using neat biodiesel and biodiesel blends in compression ignition engines slightly increases the generation of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide-any combination of which constitutes oxides of nitrogen (NOx).
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/426/knocking-out-nox
Happy new year to one and all !
Costs incurred by BP so far include an estimated $14 billion for response and cleanup and $4.5 billion in penalties announced after a settlement of a criminal case with the government.
The federal government and Gulf Coast states announced a record-setting $18.7 billion settlement with BP on Thursday that resolves years of litigation over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and delivers the largest environmental settlement ever.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/07/02/gulf-states-reach-187b-settlement--bp-over-oil-spill/29611451/
Federal Justice department asking for $48 Billion from VW for cheating and unsubstantiated NOX emissions allegations is laughably ridiculous . Lets see what they can do if VW refuses to pay anything. TDI owners can keep driving them for years to come before any resolution comes out of the case. If they boot VW out , then VW is still a winner
http://www.redbubble.com/people/lolotees/works/17489017-vw-dieselgate-humor?p=t-shirt&style=womens&body_color=white&print_location=front
I don't think anyone is saying that NOx is not a pollutant and VW cheated on the 2.0L TDI. I and others are saying as a percentage of NOx in the air we breathe the extra put out by half a million VW TDI cars cheating is not measurable. When a million CA diesel trucks are allowed to emit 125 times as much NOx as a VW TDI, it makes the 70,000 CA VW TDIs driving far fewer miles insignificant, as polluters. The fine should match the level of pollution, not the level of EPA egos crushed. I am convinced the courts will see it as any logical thinker would see it.
I don't see much activity for the last couple months except from the ambulance chasers trying to drum up business. A lot of todo over nothing. What I do see is a buying opportunity for those wanting a VW TDI. Find an Eco wonk that feels guilty killing off millions of people with his NOx spewing diesel car. Offer him below low BB and see if he bites.
But as you say, diesel engine technology will need a new generation to deal with B100.
Fines have been levelled to set an example to the future cheaters
Is it a coincidence that the head of the EPA is named, McCarthy
At present, the EPA has not certified any *conversions* to biodiesel. That's not to say they wouldn't certify a B100 engine if VW or MB would make one.
US market buy back!
From what I can swag, the 2009 TDI 's are on that list! Make mine another diesel ! I really would not like a "Frankensteined" car.
On topic, the ULSD price @ $ 2.07 will buy 241.5 gal! ($ 500 of the VW CC package) Depending on vehicle used : 50 mpg/12,075, 40 mpg/ 9,660, 36 mpg/8,694, 33 mpg/7,970 miles ! I have never used road side assist for any diesel in app 378,000 miles. That would not be true on the gasser side.
As I write this , the 2009 TDI is registered at the local VW dealership for the (diesel) customer care package!
Long story short, of a series of professional certifications, scholastic requirements and stipends, my daughter was able to travel with the variety of div 1 varsity teams! It seemed to be an absolutely wide ranging sports, scientific, rehab & over the top college experience! She's now a Doctor Physical Therapy student. She seems to be tending toward sports medicine and injury rehab. Time will tell ! If somebody young can manage the rigors of what it takes to get to DPT, the field is just wide, wide, wide open!
It was a later model Ford Powerstroke overcompensator truck.
Such behemoths are used as commuters in many places in this country. They don't have to cheat though, special regs.
We usually share the roads with the people who drive these things, on the SOS/DD trek!
Back to talk about over the top, this was a fun one:
Diesel fumes ‘biggest health catastrophe since Black Death’ as London exceeds yearly air pollution levels – in eight days (independent.co.uk)
And another fix 'em blurb:
"Volkswagen engineers have come up with a catalytic converter that could be fitted to around 430,000 cars in the United States as a fix for vehicles capable of cheating emissions tests, the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reports."
VW May Have Fix For 'Cheating' Cars (ibtimes.com)
The Salem plant’s customers includes Salem Area Mass Transit District, Cherriots; the entire bus fleet runs on 20 percent biodiesel, Carpenter said. The City of Portland’s water bureau vehicles run on 99.9 percent biodiesel.
The biodiesel-production plant opened in 2005 and was the first one in the state.
http://stillisstillmoving.com/willienelson/willie-nelson-to-visit-e-salem-biodiesel-plant/
https://www.bio-beetle.com/images/biobeetlesinparadise.pdf
Our VW maui rental cars get 40 MPG, over 400 miles on a tank, and are NOT affected by the VW "diesel dupe" at all.
https://mauicarrentals.us/