In message
-sept
ember.org, at 15:54:34 on Sat, 14 May 2016, Recliner
remarked:
But my current vehicle is precisely one that legislation, rather than
engineering, decreed I should buy when the previous one hit various
artificial limits.

Yup. We're now much more aware of the non-CO2 pollution from diesels.

The previous [petrol] car would have failed on account of hydrocarbon
emissions.
--
Roland Perry