Lawsuit against GM seen hastening the death of diesel cars in the US

Washington

IT'S EASY to imagine diesel will die in America. The troubles that started almost two years ago with the emissions scandal at Volkswagen just keep rolling on and on.

With General Motors Co now confronting a class action lawsuit over 700,000 diesel trucks, there's a growing sense across the motoring industry that the days of diesel cars are numbered, at least in the US.

GM calls the allegations of emissions test cheating baseless, and the lawsuit stops short of claiming a breach of clean air regulations. But increasingly, analysts are wondering who will be willing to buy diesel cars and trucks given that many in the industry have…