But somehow every Transit delivery van, every Transit minibus, Iveco Trucks and all Ford cars without a diesel? Hummm, yeah right.
Not sure a 1.0 EcoBoost Full sized 16 seater Transit would do that well
Remember, its within your lifetime that smoking in pubs was banned, something completely unthinkable 20yrs ago. Now the movement of making diesels socially unacceptable has started properly, you'll be surprised how quickly things can change. People can see this, hence the prices of second hand diesels dropping. Shackeng has been told by Ford salesmen that they expect to stop selling diesels in the not too distant future.
Maybe BP will regret their (denied) decision to rip out all LPG pumps, as LPG could be a viable answer, with proper factory spec dual fuel cars taking over from the soot chuckers. Certainly cleaner, and viable as a diesel replacement.
Remember, a 15yr old Tranny minibus will likely have the 2.5 diesel, producing 74bhp. The 1l ecoboost can be had in 120bhp form (and 140bhp in some of the chavved cars), and they reckon with another turbo can be 170bhp plus. Look at the (pre) launch guff for the ecoboost from 5 or more years back, and Ford state this engine design - direct injection, forced induction - was likely to result in less development into their diesels. The manufacturers knew unachievable (unless you're VW
) diesel emissions were coming, so all started looking at this kind of petrol design, with actual cars being available to the public around 4yrs ago.
Personally not a great fan of petrol turbos (or diesel turbos for that matter, but it is a necessary evil on a soot chucker), but that's the future for those of us where tizzy isn't viable.