Hi all,
Gestern in den Automotive News Europe:
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November 29, 2004 (Automotive News Europe) By Yuzo Yamaguchi
Subaru Diesels to Come Later
Subaru plans to offer the
world's first car powered by a diesel "boxer" engine by about 2008. Kyoji Takenaka, president of Fuji Heavy Industries, which owns Subaru, confirmed that the company is developing a boxer diesel engine. "We want to respond to European demand," said Takenaka.
He declined to give further details. But a Subaru source said it is possible that diesel engines will go into the Legacy, Impreza and Forester models. Subaru's vehicle architectures are designed to hold horizontally opposed "boxer" engines and do not have room in their engine compartments for differently shaped conventional diesels. To recoup high development costs, Fuji Heavy is looking at the potential for incremental diesel sales in the US and Japan.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Auf deutsch: ab 2008 gibt es den Diesel Boxer, wenn es nach FHI Praesident Takenaka geht... Cool... haette ich nicht gedacht.
Gruss,
Jan
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