EDITORIAL: Beleaguered diesel could use a break-or a breakthrough

Start talking car-business “big picture” with engineers and the discussion invariably comes to diesel. Is diesel “stick-a-fork-in-it” done?

The blowback from Volkswagen's diesel shenanigans for now has caused diesel compatriots BMW and Mercedes-Benz to almost completely withdraw diesel models from U.S. showrooms. The VW scandal generated plenty of still-fomenting blowback in Europe, too.