Diesel or Petrol??

golden_girl

Hi Everyone

If you was travelling 60 miles in total a day to get to and from work. What engine size would you suggest would be best 1.4 Corsa Petrol or 1.7 Corsa Diesel??


Many Thanks for your replies.

Lynxette

Don't forget to consider insurance - Bigger engine = bigger insurance. Also, diesels tax more, I think.

Personally, if you can counter in all of those things and still save money, I would buy the diesel - Unless you are travelling in rush hour. I have had both diesel and petrols and find that unless you're getting clear 50/60/70mph runs into work every day, you don't get that much more to the tank than a petrol, and you're still paying more to fuel up.

golden_girl

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

My husband drives on the motorway to and from work. As we far as we know the tax for both of these are in the same bracket.

Lynxette

golden_girl wrote: »

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

My husband drives on the motorway to and from work. As we far as we know the tax for both of these are in the same bracket.

Ok, wasn't sure!!

To be honest, I would say diesel then, if you can afford the extra straight out of your pocket - Trust me, if you can't, it really doesn't feel like you're saving money as you watch those numbers roll up, and up and up. :P

Conor_3

Lynxette wrote: »

Don't forget to consider insurance - Bigger engine = bigger insurance.

Wrong.

Lynxette wrote: »

Also, diesels tax more, I think.

Wrong again.

Lynxette wrote: »

Personally, if you can counter in all of those things and still save money, I would buy the diesel - Unless you are travelling in rush hour. I have had both diesel and petrols and find that unless you're getting clear 50/60/70mph runs into work every day, you don't get that much more to the tank than a petrol, and you're still paying more to fuel up.

Yes you do get more due to the fact a diesel engine is always going to have at least a 15% advantage in thermal efficiency. And you're only paying 5% extra to fuel up. Then you've got to consider that when servicing the vehicle, a diesel has fewer parts that need changing partly due to not having spark plugs.

banger9365

ive a astra 19cdti(red ti)it costs the same to service has my old vectra 1.8 (03)and i am getting 42/43 mpg round town and the road tax is only £145 going to £155 for year 2010
the insurance is more becuase they class my car has the sports oil burner (which it is)put thats only £90 more for me.
i not do many if any motorway mile in it.
there is a smaller corsa oil burner and thats the 1.3cdti and there is not much in them power wise put tax is alot cheaper
if from 1 May 2007 £35 a year or from 14 Oct 2006 – 1 May 2007 is £120 going to £95 for year 2010,yes it go's down and thats not for the red TI

pinkemsy

Diesel tax isn't necessarily more! My diesel car is £35 a year to tax because of the low emissions. It's the fastest car in the car's range and it the most economical, especially for motorway driving.

italia

pinkemsy wrote: »

Diesel tax isn't necessarily more! My diesel car is £35 a year to tax because of the low emissions. It's the fastest car in the car's range and it the most economical, especially for motorway driving.

hi what car do you drive? i have a diesel gold and am happy to only pay 120 a year now due to low emmisions but yours is even better. waht mpg do u get?

Riq

a 1.2 Fiesta petrol is £100 tax or so, the diesel 1.4 is £50 I believe.

You may be suprised, but these are obviously lower engine sizes all round.

Hotspur

Diesel every time if a turbo diesel TDI or TDCI etc.

I went over to diesel 5 years ago and am unlikely to go back. My first diesel was a Focus TDCI and I currently have a Golf 2.0 TDI and consistantly get 50mpg over varied driving and my home work journey is only 5 miles.

If you are buying new or nearly new the performance of the current crop of diesels is usually better as well. They are often more to buy new but you do get much of this outlay back when you come to sell.

The road tax is cheaper as well as the emissions are lower even on a 2.0 engine!

pebbles88

hiya,

we have just changed to a diesel (dci 1.5 renault megane) from a ford focus 1.6 and are impressed already. our tax is only £35 a yr, its costs about £50 to fill up but does around 62 MPG depending on what roads we're on ie town/motorways. the trip computer reckons its does on average 750 miles to a tank but with the focus we were only getting around 350-400 so we are very happy.

my oh does 50 mile a day round trips to work, we were getting through £40 min a week with the petrol, we do about 15000 miles in total a yr so its saving us a fortune already, even with diesel costing a few pennies more alitre, we have only had to fill up twice so far too. we are certainly diesel converts

HTH