romore wrote:
The sales numbers for diesel cars and light duty trucks are too low in North America. For years gas was cheap and readily available, we wanted the lower cost and high performance the engines offered. Diesel was seen as expensive, dirty, noisy, and slow.
It has always been popular in other countries because gasoline was very expensive and in many cases the quality was sketchy at best. They also didn't have the big heavy vehicles we were accustomed to.
No you have a little bit the wrong way around. Diesel fuel generally is more expensive, than Gas(Petrol) , but has better mileage and torque characteristics
Actually they have a lot of of even heavier vehicles,but cars are the same size or smaller. The mix of vehicles is very different and RV's are smaller