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Doctor Drivel
 
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Default 'Steam' powered cars...


"Clive" wrote in message
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In message 70, Adrian
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I'll bet you would have said that ten years ago, too. Yet today's diesel
(and, to a lesser extent, petrol) is a very different beast to that of a
decade back.


Who, ten years ago would have dared make a direct injection diesel car?


Sill only 25% efficient, so it is just like shuffling the deckchairs on the
Titanic. In 100 years no change worth mentioning.