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The technical debt of petrol engines is becoming apparent.

The technical debt of petrol engines is not relevant to this article:

> The allegations cover roughly 482,000 diesel passenger cars sold in the United States since 2009.

Sorry, I'm not a native speaker. I thought the word "petrol" includes diesel, too!

No worries! "Internal combustion engines" might be the best phrase to use, then.