It's not an official announcement but of a "a secret dream” from Wolfgang Hatz, executive director of engine and powertrain development of Audi as he talks to Italian magazine Quattroruote in the October issue.
After the presentation of the Q7 with the new V12 TDI, Hatz has revealed it's dreams: to reduce the noise of the TDI motor so noone could understand a difference in respect to a Benzine one and "to mount a diesel engine in one supercar like our new R8".
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German premium carmaker BMW intends to start selling diesel-powered cars in the United States within two years, using a urea-based additive to meet emissions standards, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.
"Urea will take another two years but then diesel is really clean and can be sold in all 50 states," the paper quoted BMW sales and marketing head Michael Ganal as saying at the British Internatonal Motor Show.
"The U.S. is more open to diesel than two or three years ago."
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