Amazing. I was excited to hear about the Audi TDI coming to the US, but now I see Subaru is planning a European diesel. I love the boxer engine in the Subaru, as well as their all wheel drive. I suspect this new diesel will have incredible efficiency:

Subaru will use next month’s Geneva motor show to debut its new diesel boxer engine in the Legacy and Outback models. The engine marks the first diesel application for a horizontally opposed engine.

The engine’s rigidity enabled Subaru to shorten it by more than two inches compared with the gasoline version. The diesel 2.0-liter turbocharged H4 produces 147 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque.

Ok, the really amazing thing here is that Subaru’s top-of-the-line Impreza gasoline engine in 2008 produces a Japanese record-setting 304 hp at 6,400 rpm and 311 pound-feet of torque at 4,400 rpm. So their new basic diesel model for daily drivers will produce nearly the same torque as the hottest rally-car on the market (surely at lower rpm), while probably delivering twice the mpg.

Hello, Subaru. Import please.