History of the diesel car Its 1.3 L XL4D engine produces at 5,000 rpm. Following the 1970s oil crisis (1973 and 1979), Volkswagen introduced their first diesel, the VW Golf, with a 1.5 L naturally aspirated indirect-injection engine which was a redesigned (dieselised) version of a gasoline engine. Mercedes-Benz tested turbodiesels in cars (e.g. by the Mercedes-Benz C111 experimental and record-setting vehicles) and the first production turbo diesel cars were, in 1978, the 3.0 5-cylinder 115 hp (86 kW) Mercedes 300 SD, available only in North America, and the Peugeot 604. The biggest single step forward for mass-market diesel cars came in 1982 when PSA
Jewett Car Company Canada. The Jewett Car Company went out of business in 1919 when the automobile began replacing mass transit. The most notable Jewett-built cars that are still running today are: Additional non-operational Jewett cars are preserved at the Canadian Railway Museum, Connecticut Trolley Museum, Electric City Trolley Museum, Elgin County Railway Museum, Fox River Trolley Museum, Museum of Transportation, New York Museum of Transportation, New York Transit Museum, Northern Ohio Railway Museum, Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, The Works and the Western Railway Museum. Jewett Car Company The Jewett Car Company was an early 20th-century American industrial company that manufactured streetcars and interurban