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 Optimism among carmakers and their suppliers about the health and underlying direction of West Europe’s diesel car market received a much needed boost from AID compiled figures showing that at this year’s first quarter stage more than half the new cars sold in Western Europe were still diesel powered. In spite of a progressive weakening in underlying diesel car demand in France, where a firestorm of negative publicity surrounding diesel particulate emissions and a recent switch to pump price parity of petrol and diesel has tempted a gathering drift back to cheaper petrol-powered cars, car buyers’ underlying healthy appetite for notably more frugal diesels in Europe has hardly changed. That’s underlined by latest AID compiled figures showing that without France, West Europe’s diesel car share at this year’s first quarter stage remained stuck at a largely unchanged 51 per cent ...more MORE LIKE THIS: Diesel fuelled cars still reign supreme throughout Western Europe 22 Jan 2015> Europe’s diesel car demand remains in robust good health 14 Nov 2014 > More than half the Maseratis sold in Germany so far this year are diesels 15 Aug 2014
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