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Due to an accident I was forced to change from a 1.8 Auto using £3120 of petrol per year. My fuel costs alone have been reduced by a massive £2080 per year as I have changed to a Diesel vehicle.
If you do more than 6000 miles per year you should be looking at a Diesel to make substancial savings.
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If you do more than 6000 miles per year you should be looking at a Diesel to make substancial savings.
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Buy a duel-fuel car or convert your own. Conversion
costs from £1600, this money saved in 1-2 years depending on milage. 40p per litre.
http://www.go-autogas.com/
If your buying 2nd hand though, it's easily justified anyway
Also, if one is a true driver and just loves driving, a petrol car is generally more fun to drive.
The last petrol car I had was three years ago - Galaxy 2.3 - 27 mpg no matter how lightly you drove it.
Had Galaxy diesel's (130PS) since and they have averaged 46 mpg+ & on a steady run I have had 53 mpg + - amazing!
I think it depends on style of driving and what you call fun.
I'd far rather drive on a country road in a turbo-diesel and overtake people with the benefit of turbo boost whilst still getting lots of MPG, than have to change down 2 gears and use loads of revs (and fuel) to do the same far more slowly in a petrol car. But that's just my opinion! And I've actually got a petrol car at the moment because (a) it was cheap and (b) I do a low mileage (But I had 3 turbo-diesels before that). My wife's car's a diesel though and I am not lost to the diesel cause.
We get almost twice the mileage from the big diesel than we do the small petrol. ::)
When small car is up for change, it will deffo be another diesel we get to replace.
In France, Diesel is a fraction of the cost of petrol, why can't that be so here !?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/233033.stm
"The most likely culprit are PM10s, microscopically small particles given off by diesel engines, coal burning, mining, construction and quarrying."