I just read a great article on Motor Trend website in regards to our diesel technology. Back in 1959 Motor Trend wrote about our new diesel that was comming to America as the first diesel-powered mainstream automobile. They took a 5122 mile road trip across America in a 1960 190D “Ponton”.
50 years later they made the same trip. This time the 1960 190D was accompanied by our new 2009 ML320 BlueTEC. The trip was broken down into 4 legs. Irvine to Seattle, Seattle to Denver, Denver to St. Louis, and lastly St. Louis to New York.
Here is the numbers break down: