Diesel Cars Stink
Why I Hate Diesel Cars
Diesel stinks. Diesel engines do not belong in cars. Don't get me wrong, diesel has it's place among trains, boats, lorries and diggers, but absolutely not in cars. I hate diesel cars. Diesel is a selfish fuel. Just because the tight arsed diesel driver in front wants to save a few measly pence, why should the people in the cars behind have to suffer his stinking sooty plumes? I suspect most miserly derv pilots don't actually save any money anyway, because diesel cars cost more, their fuel is usually slightly more expensive than petrol, and their servicing/repairs often costs more too, given the complexity of modern oil burners.
Outside the Volkswagen diesel car engine factory, yesterday
Boring
Diesel cars are crap to drive. Their engines weigh more than their petrol equivalents. This blunts any tiny amount of performance that could be had from the low revving, wheezy lethargic tractor engine under the bonnet.
Din
Diesel cars make a terrible agricultural din. Diesel fanatics claim that modern diesel cars are much quieter than oil burners of old, and that sometimes it's hard to tell a diesel car from a petrol car. Rubbish. I often have to turn the TV up or close the windows when the selfish diesel driving neighbours come home.
Soot
Diesel cars are supposedly better for the environment. Company car taxes and road taxes are based upon stupid CO2 measurements, which heavily favour diesel cars. So supposedly diesel produces less CO2. Who cares? I can't see or smell CO2 but I can see AND smell the rancid black stinking soot clouds appearing from these cars from hell.
How can this be the way forward?
Please take a moment to vote on whether you think diesel cars stink too. I have tried to make this page as un-biased as possible, so don't be swayed by my views. (Ha ha).
What do you think of diesel cars?
What do you think about the diesel car invasion? Do you have a diesel car? Do you think they stink? Please leave a comment below.
Diesel In Engines Spoils Everyone's Lungs
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Diesel Increases Extremely Smelly Emmisions Lots
Diesel Implies Extra Slow Engine Laziness
Diesel Inside Evokes Shocking Evil Looks
Comments
5 comments so far (post your own)diesel sucks indeed
Posted by on Saturday, 31/07/10 @ 20:13pm | #389
I voted against these stinking so-called modern engines... simply because mechanically it is no match to a good petrol engine (not a French one obviously, but German or Japanese).
1) It needs (at least) one turbo (otherwise no one would buy them)
2) It emits more CO2 than a petrol engine consuming the equivalent, simply because of its efficiency precisely. The carbon content of the diesel fuel is higher (hence its good consumption/efficiency ratio), so is also its CO2 emission.
3) You now need 8-speed automatics to make up for the narrow engine range (1500 rpm for the best - 4000 for all). Exactly like on trucks!
So this is where these engines belong! Not in cars!
I agree with you that governements are wrong to promote these engines, and mainly those in small cars, which generally have a worse efficiency than bigger engines. Look at the trend now with the so-called 'econetic', 'drive', 'ecomotion' and whatever ecocrap they call it, all those bloody cars develop about 100 hp at the most and emit also around 100 g/km. So it is a rate of 1 g per hp. Bad efficiency!
Take the new Lexus Hybrid for eg (ok it's expensive) but still, it develops 300 hp and emits 148 g. So 1/2 g per hp. That is EFFICIENCY and that is CLEAN. No filter whatsoever, no NOx trap for it emits zero NOx and no SMELL at all!
And I don't even talk about refinement. You can't hear it at idle or in full electric mode.
Now some stupid French engineers are going to make hybrid diesels next year. Audi is working on it too. I am eager to see that... ah ah ah. In 2014, I wish EURO 6 will put an end to all that diesel craze...
Posted by Erwin on Friday, 29/10/10 @ 15:08pm | #597
Could agree more, the dirty smelly oil burning bastards!
Posted by Wayne on Tuesday, 11/01/11 @ 14:29pm | #862
Good work! I have a new idea for what the D word stands for:
Diesel Is Evil Soot Enclouding Lungs.
I have a nice petrol V8 (MG ZT 260), and a friend has a V8 petrol Land Rover Defender tuned by Overfinch. Has recently changed his other car, a supercharged Range Rover, for the new V8 Diesel Range Rover for all the usual reasons. Guess what? Fuel econonomy is no better the way he drives it, so the search is on for a petrol 5.0 Range Rover to replace it.
As the Candian rapper Chuggo almost said;
The Diesel is shit, that's how I feel.
We'll smash it's F****cking head, that's how we're real.
Keep up the good work, all the best from Canada and Jersey,
Daniel Migros
Posted by Daniel Migros on Wednesday, 9/03/11 @ 00:26am | #1054
In Germany its the other way around. Diesel cars are taxed higher as they have much more dangerous emissions besides Co2!
For example a new Audi A6 Limo
the Petrol: 3.0 TFSI Quattro 300hp S tronic Co2 190g/km, Emission class EU5, 0-100 5.5sec, Basemodel €51,600,
tax = €220 UK tax £445
the Diesel: 3.0 TDI Quattro 245hp S tronic Co2 158g/km, Emission class EU5, 0-100 6.1sec, Basemodel €51,200, tax = €381 UK tax £165
Posted by Uwe on Sunday, 24/04/11 @ 22:01pm | #1228