Need an economical diesel car

motorguy

Passat Bluemotion. 65 mpg on average over a fill and my best so far is 90.1mpg on the 23 mile commute to work. :j

Exemplar

Just a comment here really! The security company we use here at the College all get issued with the new 3 pot Skoda Fabia (same as the polo Bluemotion engine?) and it came in the College carpark and as it drove past all I could think about was the noise and I murmered 'jeses has that thing dropped a cylinder?' and I realised - yes it had......

TiTheRev

That's the 1.2 petrol...

Exemplar

You know the noise I mean then!

rizel23

I have a 1998 Peugeot 306 D Turbo 1.9L, for that £65.00 i can get well over 600 miles and that's town, b road driving, nearer to 650 if motorway, the HDi's get even more and are cheap to buy and insure

BenL

If the car is reliable and you want to keep it you might want to convert it to LPG.

It helps a lot if you have an LPG filling station close to home.

Luckily I do and the conversion was £1600.

For a new diesel, I saw a feature on the BMW 320d Efficiency Dynamics http://www.sytner.co.uk/bmw/coventry/about-us/news-and-events/dealer-news/the-1000-mile-bmw.aspx

At an average speed of 60mph over 1000 miles the car achieved 69mpg.

It won't have been a reallife test but i could probably get that sort of figure on my 100 miles a day to work and back.



Ben

cyclonebri1

For a trully valid answer the op needs to give more detail;

ie,
New?
Nearly new?
A few years old?
Trad diesel?

These cars are evolving rapidly, good today = crap tommorrow, or by the time you read this, yesterday,:eek::eek::eek:

movilogo

Any diesel car with DMF/DPF etc. are potential money pits outside warranty period.

Unless you do starship miles (20k+/year), you may be better of with economical petrol car.

Any 1.6-1.8 petrol car is competent on motorway and returns decent fuel economy.

cyclonebri1

movilogo wrote: »

Any diesel car with DMF/DPF etc. are potential money pits outside warranty period.

Unless you do starship miles (20k+/year), you may be better of with economical petrol car.

Any 1.6-1.8 petrol car is competent on motorway and returns decent fuel economy.

But the otheside opf the view is that they don't, hence the diesel fans.

Buy a diesel car at the right price, ie, over mileage at near new, or under mileage at a fair few years old, (remember we don't have a clue to the OP's budget?), and you will be on to a winner, :money::money::money:

TiTheRev

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

But the otheside opf the view is that they don't, hence the diesel fans.

Buy a diesel car at the right price, ie, over mileage at near new, or under mileage at a fair few years old, (remember we don't have a clue to the OP's budget?), and you will be on to a winner, :money::money::money:

Gotta agree with this...