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A few days ago, I purchased a new 2013 Ford Transit Connect (US gas/auto version). I had been looking for a diesel/manual for a long time, but finally gave up. After purchasing the US drivetrain version, I located the UK fuel efficiency numbers for the diesel/manual version. The UK numbers have to be converted from imperial gallons to US gallons for comparison, and the emissions from g/km CO2 to g/mi CO2. The UK numbers can be found at http://vanfueldata.dft.gov.uk/vehicles.aspx Select diesel as the fuel type, sort on Model, and look for Transit Connect around Page 150, just after the larger Transit numbers. UK (using the 1.8L TDCi engine / manual) - Urban MPG 39.2, Extra Urban 47.1 MPG, Combined 47.1 MPG, CO2 159 g/km. Converting the imperial gallons to US gallons, and km to miles, I arrived at the following (and by all means, if I screwed up the math, please correct me) - Urban MPG 32.6, Extra Urban MPG 44.4, Combined MPG 39.2, CO2 256 g/mi. This compares with the data from my vehicles window description page (for the US 2.0L gas engine with automatic) - City 21 MPG, Highway 27 MPG, combined 23 MPG, emissions CO2 384 g/mi. The exact reason that Ford isn't marketing the diesel is anyones (educated) guess, but I suspect they would sell many of them if they did. I'm not unhappy with my purchase, but I would much rather had the diesel. The US EPA is roughly estimating 650 gallons per year of unleaded with a cost of $2,300 (15k miles per year). Driving those same miles on a diesel, even at a current price of (rough local estimate) $4.05/gal would have cut the fuel cost to $1,550. At the same time it would yielded a increase in range per fill of over 60%. Ford really needs to bring these into the US (and if Ford does not, some individual should).