Diesel-powered passenger cars are also vastly more popular in Europe than in the United States, so, in theory, AMG was onto something with their diesel C-Class. Perhaps expectantly, the C30 CDI ...

When asked about a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz with an AMG badge on the decklid, he talked about the "moderate success" of the 3-liter C30 CDI AMG (shown) that had been introduced a year earlier ...