http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s Expert tips and fun facts on protecting your car, home, motorcycle or RV from Allstate Auto Insurance Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:04:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6674 John Frank Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:32:01 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6674 The real problem is the marketing research indicates a deisel version of the popular american cars would not sell in enough volume to make it worth while. The deisel engines cost a bit more to build and, until recently, could not meet our air pollution standards. With computer controlled fuel injection, they can now meet our air polution (clean air) standards and can be built w/o the deisel rattle noise at idle. Unfortunately, the HP and Torgue curves are different, so mass producing deisel versions of popular cars and small trucks involves more than just bolting in a different engine. We will probably see more deisels soon, but their big advantage over cheaper gas engines has shrunk a lot as gas engines have improved. I have used small imported deisel trucks, comparable in capacity to the 350 or 3500 sizes of american models and the deisel engines are tiny compared to our gas engines, but perform just as well and run forever as long as they get clean oil and clean fuel. As soon as the big companies here discover through market research that deisel will sell, you will see lots of deisel cras and trucks. Deisel is a lot more popular, and common in Europe and Asia because their fuel prices have been a lot higher than our for many years.

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6648 George Lewis Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:56:02 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6648 Whatever the case may be, the late model cars have lowered the roofs and forbids a six foot tall driver. guess that is why I am trying to find an old model, (NO EPA JUNK) car.

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6586 cjsolis800f@gmail.com Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:05:30 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6586 Figure the “Strong” Euro as opposed to our “weak” dollar. European cars suck. They are just as bad as American cars.

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6528 Mervyh Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:44:02 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6528 Owned two ’74 ‘s and two ’76′s Capris. They were great cars..

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6437 Mark Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:54:38 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6437 I wish the BMW 118d was here.

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6394 anon Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:03:06 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6394 The Holden Ute is a El Camino type vehicle that GM should market here in the States.

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6323 Rob Sun, 10 Mar 2013 04:48:12 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6323 It is just me, or has anyone else noticed that Diesel fuel is priced at 40-60 cents more per gallon than unleaded regular? The increased fuel costs alone would more than offset the increased mileage of Diesel passenger vehicles.

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6316 D. M. Helms Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:46:57 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6316 Zek Et, Once upon a time, I had a Honda car in Japan that had a 360 cc engine that sold for $360 a cc. RRRrrrrrrr. Just like a motorcycle zipping through those dinky streets.

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6222 Charlie Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:21:29 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6222 Sean I made a good living working for an oil company, and have heard them blamed for every crime you can name. I was there and when prices rose from all companies at the same time everyone screamed price fixing so much so that it was investigated 52 times last i knew and never was any thing ever found more than simple supply and demand. Not one person or group thought it was a good ROI theory to build a new refinery in America for over twenty five years

]]> http://blog.allstate.com/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-u-s/#comment-6149 Harsh Realities Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:31:33 +0000 http://community.allstate.com/community/allstate_blog/blog/2012/05/31/cool-cars-you-wont-find-in-the-us#comment-6149 Most states have higher taxes on Diesel which is the real reason diesel is more expensive than gasoline.

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