Drag...
What you read one day evolves into something else the next. Now they say red-meat & eggs aren't so bad, and my health-bud tells me carrots are actually full of sugar and apples are all carbs!!! Go figure!!!
I too thought diesel was a disgusting & filthy inefficient fuel....then I read/was told that when properly tuned, the emissions are less harmful to the environment then gasoline.
I like the thinking going on in here. Just for the record...when I first saw the H2, my initial thought was "why did they have to make it soooooo big???". My old Jeep Cherokee held two full-sized adults up front, carried 3 in the rear and had a lot of cargo room: why'd they have to make the H2 so damn large????
Now...I saw the H3T and it sports a nifty 5-cylinder engine that puts out some 350 horosepower (more then H2) and comes turbo-charged: less weight, more power, fewer cylinders: could GM be moving in the right direction???
In closing: My friends have a VW Golf that is a turbo-diesel...it's relatively quick and gets 52 mpg:
Hmmm: Size of a Jeep Grand, a bit wider, all the refinements of a Hummer, 5-cylinder inter-coled turbo-diesel with a high-pressure fuel atomizer and a strong aluminum frame.......it'll probably get about 28mpg and the greenies will choke for a new reason to hate us!
It'll never happen cause it just makes too much sense!
MAC, finish this up for me!