http://m.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/f...-pollution

Is this the start of the end for the diesel car. MY13 HSE LUX Aintree Green
MY57 SE Stornoway Grey. Gone
Nissan X Trail
Discovery V8 LPG
Series II Land Rover

Its amazing how governments push for people to use things ( such as diesal engines ) because they are more efficient etc... and then raise the price of everything related to it ( fuel, car tax, where you can drive without paying etc etc.. )

I dont do politics but I get really annoyed at being priced out of the items that I want by the government. They see it as the only way to steer people to do what they want. What it actually does is mean that the wealthy can do anything and us common folk cant.

They must think that people are stupid - bring on the revolution ( or at least lets address how Europe is actually benefitting us )

As the PSA Group (Peugeot/Citroën) - one of the key diesel engine manufactures, that's a bit rich coming from the French.  FL2 now gone and have a couple of items left for sale:-

Brodit active iPhone holder + Brodit dash clip,
Bluetooth Music Streaming Module.

pjbnet wrote:

bring on the revolution

Interesting: France is the country where the rural community has a disproportionate say in government policy; the country where the rural community overwhelmingly drives diesel vehicles; the country where diesel is still considerably cheaper at the pumps than unleaded petrol as a result.

I can't see this policy going anywhere except the waste-paper bin!

France will do what their Farmers tell them

ronp wrote:

As the PSA Group (Peugeot/Citroën) - one of the key diesel engine manufactures, that's a bit rich coming from the French.

As someone who lives in France I can't see this happening in any meaningful way. The legislation will be fudged. You may be aware the French brought in a law saying we must all carry breathalysers in our cars - it got fudged in as much as the legislation is still there but you cannot be done for non compliance!

Petrol is much more expensive than diesel here and if diesel was put up by any significant amount the price of everything would shoot up (France is a very large place and stuff/people have to travel large distances) so I can't see the French putting up with it. The main problem is in Paris where pollution is bad - and where the politicians are based!

To put it all in a UK perspective, I filled up with diesel yesterday and paid the equivalent of 87p a litre!

BTW, don't forget that PSA engines wind up in many different cars including Land Rovers, Ford etc. John
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