Modern car designs

diesel cars are for short shifting cucks who are scared to rev an engine
if you really need that torque and steady output for heavy moving like trucks (semis for the obese among us), excavators or cranes then fair enough but driving a diesel car is downright retarded

Do you like to show how brainwashed are you on gasoline? I bet you can also justify barely doing 400 miles on a full tank.

Its for the moon and back

You need wheel torque, not engine torque.
Your wheel torque depends on your gear ratio, a 1,0L na gas engine can produce more torque at the wheels than a 2.0 turbocharged diesel, if geared shorter than the diesel.

You can also reverse than and make a diesel go fast with a longer transmission.

Usually the manufacturer gives the diesel engine a longer transmission since it needs it to go a decent speed, therefore the torque at the wheels is usually pretty much the same.

The benefit of diesel engines is the higher efficiency, but they have issues with power/weight ratio, emissions and clogged DPF when not driven on the highway.
So they are used when a engine is run at a constantly high load, while gas engines don´t have these problems.

The new HCCI engines, wich are coming up right now, will put a end to diesel engines since they are more efficient and don´t need a DPF to meet emissions.

>emissions
Oh no, all those NOx emission that get reduced to nitrates and fertilize the soil are killing the planet!

No one cares about the planet, they care if they need to settle lawsuits because polluting vehicles are causing cancer.

>NOx emission that get reduced to nitrates and fertilize the soil are killing the planet!
They are not killing the planet, they are causing cancer.

Lol NOx doesn't cause cancer, it triggers asthma in some people, but really is only an issue in densely populated smog prone cities

>live in rural Canada
>people drive diesels with emission systems deleted
>air is still clean as fuck
>government doesn't do shit

Sucks for the people living in rural parts of the US and stuff that lost their TDIs

>really is only an issue in densely populated smog prone cities
It is a issue whereever people live and many diesel cars drive.

Good thing hardly anyone drove diesel vehicles in the first place in North America