Every year, we brave the cold winter freeze of Detroit to attend the biggest unveiling of new cars and trucks in the world. The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), better known simply as the Detroit Auto Show, brings together the A-list of car manufacturing and engineering for three days of press conferences, product reveals, and backwater deal-making.
Though this year's event seemed quite subdued-the biggest newsmaker was Chevrolet's plug-in electric concept car-we still learned a lot about what to expect in the coming years of diesel. Much of the following speculation and predictions are based on our own diesel-power intuition, fueled by bits of #2 info from some of our Detroit sources. Still, some of our conclusions may not be worth betting the farm on. But clearly, there are diesel connections out there to be made, so we felt an obligation to pass along what we found.
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