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Canada vs. US
by
vanagonturbo
on 18 Jul, 2011 18:03
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I have a question. Why is it that Canada got so many more diesels and diesel options than the US? Is just that Murricans have had such a perceived aversion to diesel? Or is there something else? I mean Canada is generally colder than the US and diesels take forever to warm up. I would think the observation would be the opposite.
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#1
by
DieselBalz
on 18 Jul, 2011 19:09
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Its the French's fault.
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#2
by
maxfax
on 18 Jul, 2011 23:36
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Murricans are indeed skerd and perplexed by diesels, as well as three letters -- E P A
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#3
by
the caveman
on 19 Jul, 2011 05:14
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Even more than that. At one point in the late eighties, Quebec sold something like 20-25% of all in North America, all with 2.2 % of the population
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#4
by
8v-of-fury
on 20 Jul, 2011 10:46
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GoCanadaGo
Americans don't want the little 1.4 TDI's that Europe has, they're too efficient! LoL
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#5
by
R.O.R-2.0
on 20 Jul, 2011 12:25
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GoCanadaGo
Americans don't want the little 1.4 TDI's that Europe has, they're too efficient! LoL
america is run by big oil.. and diesels dont guzzle much oil.. so we dont sell many diesels. and the EPA is sleeping in the same bed as the oil companies, so that doesnt work either.
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#6
by
vanagonturbo
on 20 Jul, 2011 12:27
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Even more than that. At one point in the late eighties, Quebec sold something like 20-25% of all in North America, all with 2.2 % of the population
I dont quite understand. Could you elaborate?
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#7
by
the caveman
on 20 Jul, 2011 13:59
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We had the largest share of diesel sales, even though there were only 6.5 million people in the whole provence
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#8
by
the caveman
on 20 Jul, 2011 14:00
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Don't quote me on the exact numbers, but it was something like that
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#9
by
lovinthedeez
on 20 Jul, 2011 19:17
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growing up on the border a little bit south of montreal, even I know that quebec pretty much carries canada around, eh.
. I kid, I kid. Biggest regret of my life was not getting dual citizenship like all of the smart folks there.....
no wonder they want to secede. pay the most in taxes and get squat for the most part.
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#10
by
vanagonturbo
on 20 Jul, 2011 20:56
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We had the largest share of diesel sales, even though there were only 6.5 million people in the whole provence
Wow! Pretty crazy. Any idea why that was? Other than the obvious.. (people were paying attention)
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#11
by
the caveman
on 21 Jul, 2011 06:11
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Quebec is it's own animal, really different than the rest of North America in many respects. As for cars by the mid/late 70's when the first big oil crisis happened , we were still buying big Cadillacs, Buicks while the rest of the continent started downsizing. Then by the mid eighties we were leading the pack in small cars. I wish i still had the sale numbers from the time i mentioned before, but all to say , it was completely disportional
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#12
by
CRSMP5
on 23 Jul, 2011 10:39
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usa dislike diesel... gm screwed us all with their crapy v8 they sold...
from 87ish thru 89 there was also no diesels in usa.. then 89-91 we got them..
a eco had a na pump.. a na had a turbo pump... why... soot... supposedly reduced soot emmissions that way.. then no diesel till 96 tdi.. then had tdi thru 04.. no 05.. then pd in 06..
new ones got silly scrubbers in exhaust.. lower power.. reduced fuel economy.. so on..
if i had to be honest.. id rether breath in a cloud of soot i can see then this imiginary stuff i cannot see... why... if you can see it your lungs can filter it..
its kinda like the debate on the ozon hole.. the crap we have made synthetic via emissions and stuff mother nater cannot fix.. but back in the day of plums of smoke from factories and stuff there was no issue... WHY?
easy... mother nature can fix stuff it created.. aka fossle fuels and such... if its from the earth earth can fix... but the man made WFT is that.. mother nature is like hell.. die you stupid idiots..
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#13
by
RabbitJockey
on 23 Jul, 2011 16:33
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yeah that sums up diesels in america haha, all the cars gm made with diesels were junk, it ruined their reputation with americans, then look here in the late 90s-2000's people fell back in love with all the huge diesel trucks that people had been making into weekend warriors on the drag strip. so in 2007 they add all the emissions bull *** and ***tier fuel. now all the newer ones don't get as good as mileage as older diesel. some of the new diesels actually spray fuel in the exhaust to help burn off junk for emissions reasons. talk about cut off ur nose for ur face
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#14
by
RadoTD
on 24 Jul, 2011 01:11
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yeah that sums up diesels in america haha, all the cars gm made with diesels were junk, it ruined their reputation with americans, then look here in the late 90s-2000's people fell back in love with all the huge diesel trucks that people had been making into weekend warriors on the drag strip. so in 2007 they add all the emissions bull *** and ***tier fuel. now all the newer ones don't get as good as mileage as older diesel. some of the new diesels actually spray fuel in the exhaust to help burn off junk for emissions reasons. talk about cut off ur nose for ur face
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QFT
"Did you top up your exhaust fluid?" is now a legitimate question. What's next? Are they going to make turn signals that are filled with special gasses requiring blinker fluid or run mufflers on a bearing system to allow some rotation? The future is bleak.