THE WEEK THAT WAS - Diesel developments

News from Ford of Europe of a brand-new, Euro VI-compliant diesel engine line drew most eyeballs of all just-auto stories this week. No surprise there, of course; diesel is, ahem, in the news a lot at the moment and also the European vehicle owners' fuel of majority choice, mostly because (a) fuel economy is better and diesel is cheaper than petrol in some markets and (b) CO2 emissions usually are lower than the equivalent petrol engines (though the gap is closing) and initial purchase and annua