Diesel automatic with good fuel economy?

goldspanners

forgotmyname wrote: »

Was it towed 100 of them after it broke down? Or did you get 20mpg for the other 200 miles?
If you said it average 60mpg from proper working out and not the trip computer and over 50,000 miles i would rush out & buy one.

Do astra's still come with the useless 70bhp diesel? 70bhp for a car that weights over 1.3 tons. Snooze inducing.

Parkers show the average as 40mpg, which is 9 mpg less than the manual.

i don't know about the astra. but i do know it was calculated via the trip computer. roughly as i remember it ( as it was last year) we took the car with a full tank of fuel, it was necked, drove to newcastle and back again,then refuelled and took less than £20 to neck it again. so rough maths would also back up figures of around 50-60mpg.

im in no way advising the op to buy a vectra though. i certainly wouldn't. it was rubbish to drive,seats were terrible,absoloutly hate the indicator single touch thing they do,don't like how the dash is laid out and think it looks cheap and plastic inside. and this was the vxr styled one with every extra.
but good fuel economy.

knightstyle

I just posted on another thread about our newly purchased Toyota Auris 1.4 diesel auto. The fuel saving compared with our Scenic diesel auto is amazing, but too soon to work out accurate consumption. Well worth a look at what some describe as the most boring car on the market!

katykitten

hi where did you post about this as would like to read
thanks

Kered

I know you asked for smaller cars but my Merc C220 Cdi was getting 49 mpg combined when new and 65 mpg on a run of over 80 miles that I regularly did at that time, the mileage has dropped off as the car has got older (51 plate) and is down to 42 combined and 56 on the motorway.

TVR2

forgotmyname wrote: »

Do astra's still come with the useless 70bhp diesel? 70bhp for a car that weights over 1.3 tons. Snooze inducing.

No no, tight owners can now expect a dizzying 95 bhp, good for 60 mph in 14 seconds... :rotfl:

Were I buying a new Astra with economy on the mind, I'd go for the 140 bhp 1.4 turbo petrol which hits 60 mph in 9 seconds and still returns 48 mpg. Lower list price, too.

Frankly though if it was my money, I'd sniff out an 8 year old GSi turbo (or better still a Bertone coupe turbo) for about £4k and spend the additional £14k I'd have saved on better things (like petrol...) Or more seriously get a newer shape SRi with the same engine for the same money.

EDIT. Sorry, went way off topic there and forgot it was a company car - ignore me.

knightstyle

katykitten, I posted on "real mpg" on the same page as this thread.

forgotmyname

9 seconds for a 1.4 turbo? Eeeehhh i rememeber Renault 5 Turbo 0-60 in about 7 seconds? i think?

I quite liked the look of them, Ahhh young and innocent those were the days? lol

JoeyEmma

Well, I just took the Auris Hybrid out for a drive and actually really liked it. It is much more of a normal car than the Prius, and visibility was good. The trip computer indicated that they were getting about 51mpg from it (they advertise that model as a 70mpg car), however it was a demonstrator that one of the salesman is driving, and he looks like a boy racer who will have been ragging it, and as it was new, the engine hasn't been broken in properly.

Kered- A Merc is a nice choice, but alas, the company car tax will be too high to even consider it and they start at £25,000

mister_bridger

JoeyEmma wrote: »

We are looking for a small family car that is-
- Automatic
- Has good fuel economy, such as 60mpg combined (probably looking at a diesel)
- Has five doors
- Is a reasonable size, but not a big saloon.
- Isn't going to hammer me for company car tax, so low emissions.
It is going to be through work, and we want to try and keep the budget below £20k

I have had a good look and have ruled out the following
- Toyota Prius (hated the visibility from the back
- Citroen C4 and Peugeot 308 (didn't like either)
- Volvo S40 (over £25k, so the tax will be huge)

We have ruled out slightly smaller cars such as the Fiesta, Polo etc as they do not come with a reasonably punchy automatic engine with good fuel economy. We don't want a 1.2diesel that does 0-60 in 15 seconds!

And have a short list of the following
- Audi A3 1.6TDi S-tronic Standard
- VW Golf Match 1.6TDi Automatic with BlueMotion Technology
- Renault Megane dCi 110 Auto Dynamique TomTom

What else could we look at? Not many places do an automatic diesel or automatic that gets 60mpg or so.

Don't discount the Fiat Bravo. The automatic version of this has lower emissions (and therefore cheaper tax) and is more economical than the manual version. It's also well within your budget.