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10 Diesel Cars That Time Forgot
A survey of forgotten oil-burners from the late Malaise era. Chevrolet
The oil crisis of the 1970s brought a crop of smaller cars, and for the first time in many years Detroit manufacturers were forced to learn how to make small diesel engines. But prices at the pump were one thing, and car development cycles were quite another. By the time diesels started appearing at dealerships in great numbers, the fuel-economy case for them had become slightly less pressing if not altogether moot.
Oldsmobile diesels may be the best remembered diesel experiment they were experimental, all right but there was a large variety of foreign and domestic cars sporting oil burners claiming various fantastical fuel-economy numbers.