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Ford still thinking about diesel models for the U.S.

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The Americans from Ford are seriously thinking if they should introduce diesel models in the U.S. or not, certain reasons hindering the company to offer the U.S. customers more fuel efficient models equipped with diesel engines. To be more precise, we talk about diesel passenger cars which already are available in Europe for many years.

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Ford

However, Ford offers few SUV models with diesel engines but they are still wondering if they should offer the same units on passenger cars.

According to the Powertrain Research director of Ford, Dan Kapp, diesels are often more expensive than the gasoline units by around 15% and considering that the diesel fuel is also $0,20 more expensive than gasoline, the introduction of this kind of models is not very reliable for now.

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Ford

He added that the price of diesel fuel is going up which makes the implementation of diesel models even more difficult due to obvious economical facts. Kapp concluded by claiming that Ford might offer diesel choices for the passenger cars if the market will show a significant demand in this regard. “Will customers pay more for a diesel? Will they get a payback? Diesel fuel may continue to go up in price, so we’re looking at it.”

Andrei Ursu
the authorAndrei Ursu
Andrei is one of the oldest automotive journalists of Automotorblog and has written more than 3000 articles for our publication. He has been passionate about cars since he was a small child, and he joined our team of writers in 2009. In addition to his passion for cars, he is also passionate about music. In his free time, he composes songs and sings them, which also brought him real success in the musical field.

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