They don't call you guys the Best&Brightest for nothing, I tell ya.
When I complained that Mercedes-Benz was using Renault-sourced diesel engines in its small cars, one of our Deutschland-based readers disagreed with my "facts". Which is fair, because I got my facts from a variety of US-based auto media, and he's getting his from, well, Germany.
The "OM651″ referred to in that image is the new-ish family of four-cylinder Benz diesels, which appears in at least three different variants across the A-class range. The "OM640″ diesel is the Renault one, available in the A180 hatchback as a relatively low-output one-and-a-half-liter. Alright, so it turns out that you can still rock in America get a Mercedes diesel in the cheap Mercedes sedan. Where things get a little strange, however, is with this fact: the E250 diesel that's arriving on our shores now packs a 2.1-liter OM651 and is fully EPA-compliant. So this isn't even a matter of figuring out how to make the engine work over here; it's simply a matter of adding a urea tank somewhere in the CLA.
How about the trunk?
from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com
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