Petrol or Diesel

[acdcfan]

Adding to the speedo error, Mine is out by 9kph.
Have not been able to get below about 5.3L/100k on highways as yet.
6500k's on clock ... it's improving slowly..

First day I took it out on the freeway I got 4.7l/100 km and even managed 4.3l/100
I don't accelerate hard when engine cold, instead I wait until warmed up and than go for it

[Jettinabout]

Get the diesel....ya grand critters will thank you for it.....I have a TDI Jetta with 16000 on the clock(drove a suby liberty before that-nice car but the J is better)...the stereo is amazing, yes I listen to opera with it and no problems with noise...they are aqiuet car even at low speed and revs.

Hands up all those that replied to this thread who don't drive both petrol and diesel......then don't comment. If you don't, then tell the guy. He is in all likelyhood going to base an expensive decision on the outcome. Not meaning to flame anyone but we have to be responsible in situations like this.

[shogun2]

Get the diesel....
Hands up all those that replied to this thread who don't drive both petrol and diesel......then don't comment. If you don't, then tell the guy. He is in all likelyhood going to base an expensive decision on the outcome. Not meaning to flame anyone but we have to be responsible in situations like this.

Before our Gof TDI I drove a Subie twin turbo Liberty - I would never go back.

[acdcfan]

Get the diesel....
Hands up all those that replied to this thread who don't drive both petrol and diesel......then don't comment. If you don't, then tell the guy. He is in all likelyhood going to base an expensive decision on the outcome. Not meaning to flame anyone but we have to be responsible in situations like this.

Before I got mine, I drove VS V6 commodore and will never go back to petrol engine

[JP-009]

After seeing all the diesel performance cars in Europe and Brittain, I promised myself a similar car at home (Oz).

After having spent bucket loads of cash doing up petrol engines, my MkV 2TDi just shames all my previous efforts - and it is standard

I could never go back to buying a new petrol car - just can't justify the higher fuel consumption and poorer performance of a petrol engine.

Diesel for me

(In saying that, just bought myself a '76 MkI to play with , as the MkV is the family car. I wonder how much effort it would be to fit a 1.9TDi into the MkI )