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Diesel: Powerful and clean
The diesel powered Volkswagen Touareg R50 has enough power to tow a Boeing 747. We find out from TDI expert Matthias Heming how this is possible.
Diesel Touareg works its charm
The R50 may be huge and heavy, but it accelerates like a tsunami. Will the 'clean' diesel Volkswagen R50 take to the high-sulphur fuel across the Causeway?
Of Alpine hills and motorway thrills
Too cool to drive diesel? Find out why diesel cars are still a viable alternative for the image conscious. -Part 3
Diesel athletes
The hills may be alive to the sound of honking, but that's not why our writer is groaning. Find out why... -Part 2
88 kilometres with zero petrol
Find out how a diesel SUV tackles an Austrian country road on a near empty tank in winter. -Part 1
Go further with diesel
Powerful and clean - find out why the modern diesel will take you faster and further.
» Video: Touareg's jumbo effort
Out of the frying pan, into the diesel engines
As fuel prices soar, more firms save money by using bio-diesel made from waste cooking oil.
Pump prices - eight hikes in eight months
Reader's feedback on the recent rapid increase in petrol prices.
Tax reduction makes diesel-powered passenger cars cheaper to own
The government has announced that it will reduce the supplementary tax for diesel cars.
VW, Merc diesel cars in biodiesel trial
A two-year project with Volkswagen and Mercedes Benz diesel models was initiated in December testing 13 normal cars running on biodiesel.
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