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Jim Holder
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Diesel won Le Mans nine times in a row: a high or low point?
REMEMBER DIESEL? In 1997, it was the miracle fuel that could deliver the CO 2 targets set out in the Kyoto Protocol. Diesel cars were incentivised by governments and honed by manufacturers onto the driveways of huge numbers of buyers.
In Western Europe, the market share of diesel cars peaked at 56% in 2011, up from 13% in 1990, and it remained the majority fuel of choice through to 2017, its popularity immune to the World Health Organization reporting in 2012 that its fumes caused cancer.