Hollywood could not have written a better script for this year's Engine Trends feature. Politics, cheap gasoline, truck lust and environmental imagery drive the 1999 story as much as combustion science and catalyst chemistry.
It's the next round of U.S. auto emissions regulations, called Tier II, and the outcome will determine the industry's light vehicle engine strategies for the 2004 model year and beyond.
"This is going to be a very, very tough tug-of-war for us," predicts an automaker lobbyist based in Washington, D.C. "We aren't going into this looking like we've got our act together."
Recent episodes suggest that's true. Last November, automakers lost big …
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