>- Modern Diesel engines are very complicated due to their turbos, hence are more brittle and expensive to repair. This is nonsense. Especially the part about

>- Modern Diesel engines are very complicated due to their turbos, hence are more brittle and expensive to repair. This is nonsense. Especially the part about turbochargers. It's hard to find a diesel without one these days. The technology is mature, and so widely adopted that it is the default. >- Price advantage of Diesel is practically not there anymore, but the Diesel model is still more expensive. Yup, takes much longer to pay for itself, if ever. >- Modern Gasoline engines have caught up with Diesels in terms of mpg. No. With a gas engine you can have lots of power, or good economy, never both. If that were true, I'd expect to see at least some adoption in trucking. >No one bought a Diesel because it's a Diesel. Everyone who buys a diesel, buys it because it is a diesel. Nobody buys one on accident. I still maintain that diesels got their bad reputation in the US because of the awful Oldsmobile 350 diesel experiment. I expect the persistent lack of diesels in the US has more to do with shady trade shenanigans than anyone's fear of diesels, despite the price.