Vfacts august 2019

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Originally Posted by Sprintey

Diesel will still be required for remote areas, its economy and the restrictions on taking petrol into some areas will see to that. Toyota has said they will keep doing diesel on LC and Prado, too.

However, it will be legislated out of common occurrence starting out in Euro cities and expanding outward. Because of particulates (and going on in the background, maybe because of peak diesel production). Petrol is improving too, and until electric there are two paths: one, the hybrid and two, what Mazda is trying.

New era diesels and particulate filters are coming, amazing what the threat of legislation does..
We shouldn't read too literally everything that's being printed.....
There is no such thing as peak diesel production, refineries are controlling output to keep prices up.

Hybrid 3.5V6 will be in LC300 and similar is in the big Ford Expeditions and F series - here you have diesel economy, zero low speed/local emissions and fuel consumption. Toyota's RAV4 hybrid is hitting it out of the park at present - this is the big market shift right now.

1. It is my understanding that F150 will get a 5.0 V8 hybrid package shared with Mustang.
2. August sales of RAV4 in the USA was over 48,000, it's full sized truck and full sized SUV sales are terrible.