I just heard, but didn't find any link, that the diesel version is being imported into California. The more I look at this little car, the better I like it. Wonder if I can get one for my birthday?It's safer than an SUV. That's why the manufacturers love SUVs, they don't have to meet passenger car safety regulations because they are considered trucks. Where the 33-41mpg figure comes from, I don't know what they did to em to bring them here. I drove the gasoline model and got 50-52 combined, and with the diesel got 70 regardless of where or how driven.