Paris Beijing 2006 is on and there are 36 Mercedes diesels and 24 support vehicles making the trip from Paris to Beijing. It’s 13,600km and we are not driving as a convoy (except where the Chinese officals request it). So, how do we all get from Point A to Point B each day? The E320 guy shows you how we navigate.
As you can imagine, Paris-Beijing 2006, the E-Class experience is a dream for car enthusiasts. It’s the same for professional photographers, too. For a video cameraman, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opprotunity, unless you are Alex Heiduscka. He is a professional video photographer who is on his second Paris-Beijing drive this year!! He went with the scout team over the summer, when the route was laid out and the arrangements were being made, and he’s on the tour again this fall. I spoke with Alex about the route and what we might see on the way.
Though the new revolution in clean diesel is probably what is going to be one of the main factors in diesel’s projected growth, it doesn’t mean Cummins didn’t go into it kicking and screaming.
From The New York Times
COLUMBUS, Indiana: Executives at Cummins, a maker of diesel engines, did not expect their blessings to come in disguise, particularly when disguised as U.S. government regulations.