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Diesel ? 200

posted by  Aye Roll on  Fri Feb 21 14:29 CST 2003
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Actually the diesel was developed by VW. It's basically one-and-a-half Rabbit or Golf Diesel engines. Those were a 1.6L 4-cyl, this is a 2.4L 6-cyl. Internal components are shared with the VW diesel. As good a reputation as it had in the VWs, it never seemed to fare as well in the Volvo. Also never very popular in this country. A few thousand 240 Diesels sold from 81-85 and a few thousand 760GLE TurboDiesels from 84-86? and that's about it.
For whatever reason Americans just refuse to drive efficient vehicles for the most part. Not that I'm really doing much to help but at least I don't own a 10-mpg Suburban.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE, 91 244: 808K total






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