BMW cant build cars anymore? My saab has 210.000 km and still drives like new
If you knew my driving style, you'd knew that 220.000Km are QUITE the achievement. Believe my word.
And about that diesel engine... try to find a car in Europe that does NOT have a Fiat built diesel...
I'll tell you a edifying story. In the last 70ies first 80ies, it was Peugeot that had the best diesel engines in Europe, and since here in Italy fuel has always been MAXXXXY taxed (
a HONEST government could run the state WHOLE with only the taxes we pay on fuel here, enough said), in those years more and more people began putting their preconceptions about diesel behind them, since diesel fuel back then cost something like A HALF the price of common petrol per liter (
nowadays it's merely 10 cents cheaper per liter).
And back in those days FIAT was NOT good in making diesel engines. And they KNEW it.
So the boss at FIAT polled the government, lead by Bettino Craxi (
may the rotten bastard roast in the Eternal Hell until a Hell will exist) for a solution. Said boss wanted people to continue buying HIS
dupe cars, and not give Peugeot the money that, by what he thought were the Word of the Lord Himself, should have gone to HIM (
and then some people in forum like this gets mad at me when I say that there has never been a honest rich man and never will be... try and walk a goddamn mile in my shoes, would you?). And those so nice and honest BASTARDS in the government, to please their usually bribe-generous friend, in 1986 put a HYPER-EXTRA-SUPER-DUPER-OVER-MAXY-road tax on diesel cars adducing the excuse that diesel engines were EXTREMELY more polluting than petrol engines.
In the years when the common petrol had LEAD in it. Can you imagine a more bare-faced, cheeky, underhanded, immoral, shameless, slimy, LOW lie?
Italian politicians' honesty at its finest.
It was a BAD tax. If you had a two liters diesel car you ended up paying OVER two million old Lire per year, and some cars weren't worth even half that price TOTAL. The only ones that bought diesel cars in those years here in Italy were those who had a lot to travel to do, like traveling salesmen and the like. A HELL of a lot to travel, like 100.000Km per year or more.
Ten years after that pristine like their souls token of friendship to their rich and generous friend in FIAT had been delivered, when FIAT had recovered the technical gap, the tax was rescinded, since by then they WANTED to sell diesel cars, and nowadays they have reached quite the technological peak.
So yes, you, and I, are using engines that were born out of a LIE and the speculations of soulless BASTARDS on common people. Can do nothing about it now, but AT THE VERY LEAST do not turn any kind of blind eyes on it.
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:43 pm
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