when you think abit back diesel engines were abit of a joke but nowadays ther just as fast as petrol and more reliable and have loads more torque on top gear thay put up one of bmw new top diesel against the same power petrol and the diesel was nearly as fast around the track i think when the diesel turbo came a new bread of car was born, and no longer was a diesel slow , im looking at the focus tdci, and just to mention the diesel bmw thay put around the track was faster than the focus rs

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