You do have to ask your mum why she thinks diesel is so great for her. Does she do around 20,000 miles a year, or more?
She will in my opinion be wasting money if she buys a diesel auto just because it does 5-10 mpg more than a petrol. She might not even see that advantage in real life driving, and she's unlikely to get a payback on the higher cost of the car for a very long time, if ever.
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How small? Is Focus size too big? What kind of age of car is she lookin at?
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You do have to ask your mum why she thinks diesel is so great for her. Does she do around 20 000 miles a year or more? She will in my opinion be wasting money if she buys a diesel auto just because it does 5-10 mpg more than a petrol. She might not even see that advantage in real life driving and she's unlikely to get a payback on the higher cost of the car for a very long time if ever.
You know there are quite a few of us out there who prefer diesels for the way they drive.
And there is absolutely no way that a diesel will ever do only 5-10 mpg more than a petrol! Get real!
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You know there are quite a few of us out there who prefer diesels for the way they drive. And there is absolutely no way that a diesel will ever do only 5-10 mpg more than a petrol! Get real!
So tell us the difference between the way diesel automatics drive over petrol automatics?
Personally I think 5-10 mpg difference is not unrealistic for an autobox in everyday driving.
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Well, it's the torque. In order to get performance from a petrol auto you generally have to rev it more than a diesel. Higher revs , like for like, means burning more fuel. The torque of a diesel gives you a quicker shove at lower revs, without the need for reving. On the crowded roads of the south-east this has more relevance to everyday driving. It's not just because of company car tax rules that sales of diesels have increased the way they have over the past decade. Yes, if we all lived in the sticks and only ever drove on empty country roads, I dare say we would drive more high-reving petrol-engined cars.
I think local yokel was saying that the difference between a petrol auto and a diesel auto would be 5-10 mpg max, if at all. My medium-sized diesel auto does 44mpg in town. I know that if it had a petrol engine, it would give less than 30mpg, judging on previous manual petrol cars I have driven in the same conditions.
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