It may not sound all that refined to petrolhead’s ears, but brands like Mercedes-Benz showed us the hidden potential of passenger-car diesel engines. It began with a 2.5-litre 45hp OM138 in 1935 which proved as a more fuel-efficient equivalent to Otto-running engines and with the IDI technology they were made until the early 2000s.

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