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Some of us are big fans of diesel engines. Huge fans even. We love the slow-revving grunt. We love the incredibly long time it takes them to run through a tank of fuel. We love lazily cruising at 70 mph while turning over less than 2,000 rpm. There's even more to love, but we have to admit, none ...

Click on picture above for a complete high-resolution gallery of the Audi Q7 TDI (V12 model)It quite seems that the Japanese will soon have more diesel cars available. We already knew about the X-Trail diesel which is going on sale in a few weeks, but now another manufacturer has announced plans to ...

A grey 520d station wagon delivered in Munich and owned by Dr. Thomas Leske has become the 1-millionth BMW with EfficientDynamics. The choice of the model was significant, because BMW has also announced a 177hp 520d model with CO2 emissions under 140 g/km for next Fall (at least in Germany). This ...

Just as a whole batch of new fifty state-legal diesel vehicles are about to hit the market in the U.S., chemical company BASF is set to take advantage of the situation. BASF has announced that they will be raising the price of AdBlue by €45 per 1,000 liters. AdBlue is the 1/3 urea, 2/3 water ...

click for high-resolution galleryThey're SUVs, they're Mercedes, they're clean diesel, and they're coming to America. Mercedes-Benz announced today that the R 320 BlueTEC, ML 320 BlueTEC and GL 320 BlueTEC models will be the first diesel models with AdBlue injection in available in America this ...

We and our readers are familiar with urea injection system thanks to Mercedes' BlueTec technology (aka CleanTDI at Volkswagen). Until now, these systems had been announced in passenger vehicles geared to the US market but the city of Málaga (Spain) has announced that it's purchasing one ...

Whether or not you believe in global warming, nitrogen-oxides, or NOx, definitely does contribute to acid rain and smog, which are not debatable. Because NOx is emitted in large quantities from the exhaust of diesel engines, something needs to stop it from entering our atmosphere. One way to do ...

While VW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and even Jeep will market diesel vehicles with BLUETEC technology in the U.S. soon, BMW will go its own way. BMW wants to develop a urea-based technology to reduce NOx before making a sustained push here with diesel products. The company already offers a number of ...

Seems like the diesel craze is actually starting to catch on. And why shouldn't it? We've finally got the new clean diesel fuel. Mercedes just announced they'd launch three new diesel-powered vehicles. And DaimlerChrysler, BMW and Volkswagen said they'd team up on BlueTec. Wait, there it is ...