Performance and Gas Miles Can Go Together, But Why Don't We Have This Over Here?

Ok I admit it.  I'm jealous.  Not that Agent001 is over in Sweden taking in the beautiful sites, or those awesome Swedish ladies that seem to be EVERYWHERE!.

I can handle that part. 

It is when he teases us with the vehicles they have over there we don't have!  Call it a case of Gearhead envy or something, but when I see something that you know fits a niche that is wide open over in the states. It make me wonder "why don't we have this?".

Take the economy car market.  You can get fun, and you can get hyper milers, but not both in one package.  But over in the EU you can have this simply awesome MINI D Camden Edition that does both. 

Yeah I know it to the casual observer it is "just a Mini" but the real enthusiast knows the diesel designation means this little sucker gets 75 real world miles per gallon!  Combine that with practically zero performance loss with a diesel and you can see my line of thinking.

Compare that to the Prius and you see VERY quickly that most any conventional Hybrid pales in light of these new generation clean diesels!
















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