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They actually kinda do? Any oncoming car with matrix headlights doesn’t blind me and when I had them (well, projector based adaptive lights actually), I never got flashed at.

IIRC they even blocked out cyclists and pedestrians though I could be wrong.

And unlike simply having dim lights, they still illuminated the roadside enough that I could see the animals before they’d jump onto the road.

Manufacturers supercede parts in the middle of a model’s lifecycle all the time, sometimes doesn’t even coincide with a facelift

Could be that they replaced the parts with a newer design already

They could be pointing up too if improperly adjusted

Far more important that the annual safety and emissions inspection checks the angle. Definitely does where I live.

My now over 20 years old Mercedes did about 5 when I had it. An E-Class wagon, so not a very small or light car. 2.7 liter inline 5 diesel.

My current nearly 20 year old Audi doesn’t match it but that’s because it has full-time AWD and I got the wrong version of the 3.0 tdi, with 171 kW not 176. 176 has higher injection pressure and a newer Bosch EDC version (17 vs 16) that does more with pilot injections and everything, giving it an extra 50 Nm of torque AND ~2 liters less fuel consumption. Right now I’m doing 6-7, but the car is also hilariously quick since it’s remapped. Oh well, at least I have the Bosch CP3 pump so I won’t have to worry about metal in my fuel shavings like the CP4 folks.

The hybrids aren’t a consumer choice, companies like BMW, MB and Audi put MHEV technology on their normal diesel and petrol engines these days so they could call them hybrids. It’s a 48V integrated starter-generator, it only really helps when accelerating from a stop, but at the very least it’s cheap to add compared to a proper hybrid battery and extra motors and whatnot.

Diesel is pretty much limited to commercial usage. I’m sure some idiot is driving a diesel truck around but that’s not common.

11.4% pure diesel, but I’d wager a lot of the hybrids are diesel hybrids. From all the big German companies, if you buy a diesel now, it’ll be a diesel mild hybrid at least.

And if you click on the source data link in the article, you’ll find that it was only new Pkw registrations, not Lkw. Personenkraftwagen = people carrying vehicle, Lastkraftwagen = cargo carrying vehicle. And you can even register pickup trucks as N1 instead of M1 making them Lkw rather than Pkw. If you were to register a large American pickup truck, you’d probably better off registering it as a cargo vehicle so you’d be taxed on weight rather than on its gigantic engine.

You can get diesel wagons that do 4l/100km extraurban. Makes up for the little fuel price difference. Every other used car imported to Estonia is a diesel that started its life in Germany.

There are currently about 230k diesel cars on sale on mobile.de that aren’t classified as SUVs, pickup trucks or vans. I even excluded minivans from the search. If you add all the crossover SUVs (VW T-whatever, BMW Xwhatever, Audi Qwhatever), you’ll have even more and those are still not really trucks.