04/07/2008 00:21. said.

"We see a big market in California," he said. "Mercedes is already popular there, and we want to implement the diesel in that market."

According to the press materials distributed by the Mercedes technicians, BlueTEC was introduced in 2006. Its combination of high performance and low emissions is made possible by the injection of an aqueous urea solution into the stream of exhaust gases. Known as AdBlue, the solution cuts nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 80 percent.

Mercedes is rolling out three versions of the new diesel-powered SUV in Manchester — the R 320, the ML 320 and the GL 320. For the past two weeks a small army of automobile writers and journalists have crisscrossed several pre-set test routes around the region in the new vehicles, taking them for cruises up... // Manchester Journal