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Originally Posted by cawimmer430  BTW James, do you guys get the diesel M-Class in Singapore? Or diesel C and E-Classes for that matter? When I lived in the Philippines, the C220 CDI and E220 CDI were sold there as an alternative to the C240 and E240.  |
I'm sad to say Wimmer, that we don't get ANY diesels at all. Diesel tax is SIX times the petrol tax - suffice to say, the financial loss from that tax is not made up for more power/better consumption of a diesel.
The government discourages diesel for political as well as transport issues. For the former, the government subsidises diesel for the taxis running around here - if they allow diesel private cars, diesel prices may rise, giving taxi drivers a harder life and using more government coffers to keep these diesel prices low for taxi drivers. That's one reason.
For the latter, the government discourages car ownership - allowing diesel cars to be sold will entice more people to buy cars which leads to more traffic jams, etc. It'll be problematic.
If they sold diesels we would have gotten a Phaeton V10 TDI...
