This is the 65MPG car that Ford won't sell in the US

when it does us diesel drivers will still be cheaper to operate. at 3.50 the typical 2006 model vw diesel is 8.3 cents per mile to operate.

we're talking about Ford here... not Chevy.

Ummm...the feedback is for Chevy...I thought this was a Ford vehicle. Did I miss something?

How about GM?

speak for yourself. I f**king LOVE diesels!

Take a gander at the 0-60 in 6 second 335d from BMW. New for 2009, this diesel gets 36MPG from a twincharged 6-cylendar diesel engine that accounts for over 40% of european sales of BMW models. How's that for quick?

That is certainly sporty! I'm impressed for a 4door that gets 33/gallon of diesel, but it's gasoline twin does it in 5.6 seconds.

Most sports cars do it in less than 5 seconds. A handful in less than 4 seconds. It's 50% slower than those.

maisry writes,

"Why can't they sell it [diesel Fords] in the US?"

Good question!

Two likely reasons.

1/ They can, but since they own the politicians, why bother? Having been awarded government largess while ignoring both profit motive and customer demand (to sell Value) they cannot now be compelled to sell the same vehicles that Europeans demand. Europeans obviously constitute a tougher market. Feel insulted yet?

2/ They own the politicians. As long as we have CAFE standards reflecting a technological Jurassic mindset, ['pollution? what's that?'] AND heavily subsidized oil companies, who with Washington's express consent and connivance can buy and suppress innovation - where is the incentive to modernize going to come from?

Scheduling hybrid development only in MEXICO? Thus arbitrarily bumping up the costs to deliver the product across America? What a farce!

Priceless. That pretty much demonstrates how much the auomaker\oil cartel cares about the country that made them rich.

Avery, to be fair I think that due to the AWU, it is cheaper to build the hybrid cars in mexico where the wages are cheaper and you've got more eager workers than to attempt to build it in the USA under AWU salary.

kcfoxie writes,

"Avery, to be fair I think that due to the AWU, it is cheaper to build the hybrid cars in mexico where the wages are cheaper and you've got more eager workers than to attempt to build it in the USA under AWU salary."

Amazing. That's your idea of "Fair"? And where are Honda and Toyota hybrids built? Terra del Fuego? Or the American South?

kcfoxie, to be at least as Fair, I think you're a nice Republican stalwart and coincidentally – too full of evangelized neo-con dogma to think straight.

Of course it's cheaper to build cars in Mexico. And cheaper still in Africa. Who said otherwise? What you persist in ignoring is the corruption and systematic destruction of the US as an economic superpower. Instead you focus entirely on products which superficially seem cheap to consumers.

If it tanks the unions, then it's all good by you, and you look no further. Is that it?

Not so elsewhere, is it? KIA Motors wants to sell cars to India – what does India tell them to do? Build factories in India, hire locals, or stay the hell out.

It's the same in Japan, Europe, China. You want to sell products in their countries and compete in their markets – you build factories in-country and hire locals. You want market share you pay what they demand. Sure, you can sneer at economic nationalism as much as you want but they haven't boxed themselves in as perpetual losers, and they aren't facing the same ludicrous future we are.

Our economic strategy? We just can't dis-employ Americans fast enough to satisfy neocons and big business, can we? Why else do you think we have NAFTA? Who benefits most from the proposed Super Corridor? You? And who will pay for it? YOU.

Who will benefit most from off-shoring jobs? Do you imagine it's a majority of Americans hugely profiting from “trickle down” theology? Look around. For 8 years that pipedream policy has failed, the economy has yet to hit bottom, and you want more of the same?

The benefit for Americans? Massive trade deficits, capital flight, social instability, a year long undeclared recession, imminent national panic, and a growing prospect of creating another paranoid third world junta - right here.

Our policies are pure economic poison and for promoting them we are a global economic laughingstock. As with any junta, benefits are far too few to warrant the sacrifices they demand. Hence the global lack of trust in our politicians, our economy and the future solvency of our state.

Look around. Each year millions more are jobless, not just autoworkers, and year after year, despite nicely fluffed statistics - it doesn't stop. Result? This in an economy where national disposable income is a joke. Your implied solution? Worsen the problem to cheapen prices. Meaning employ (and thus subsidize) Chinese, Indian, South American or European economies, to ensure that Americans who can afford it can get a wide range of marginally cheaper products and business tycoons can fatten themselves.

The actual cost? A steady downward spiral of trade imbalances which further erodes our flat-lined economy. Revenue streams normally available for everything else, streams based on consumer confidence, including car and home loans - thus evaporate. The banks, looking at the real economy, tell us, 'Loans? Forget loans until we can assess how deep this hole is.'

Add that to your equation and analyze what the results are for this country in ten years. Or five. Bottom line: Are you in any doubt whatsoever as to what these lunatic ideological fantasies have done to the nation's wealth?

And this crap about “more eager workers”? Hilarious! What creativity! You conflate off shore's near slave labor working conditions to greater eagerness to manufacture products?

Any pretense that you were even in the ballpark of FAIR is gone. If this is your idea of “fair” I think you'll feel much more at home adding your views to the choir of sycophants at FOX Noise..

Not really. It's co2 output is lower than a prius as is. Ford has to only deal with nox: add another catalytic converter and your done. The clean diesel vas saw a modest 2mpg drop with clean exhaust and a 40hp bump in power from the last generation of diesel engines.

Likely it is.

It's sad that the word "conspiracy" automatically means "crazy" or "imaginary" in most people's minds.