Renault Clio 1.5DCi (106 BHP)? OR ALTERNATIVE?
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Matt100HP said:
The difference between 35mpg (what I average in my 100HP, driving enthusiastically) and 45mpg (what I reckon you'd realistically get out of an enthusiastically driven GP 1.9) is about £35 per 1,000 miles, or about £275 per year using the average UK mileage for 2013.
When you're looking at insurance quotes of £1700 and describing them as "reasonable", an extra £275pa shouldn't be too much of a concern.
Also consider that a diesel takes much longer than a petrol to warm up, so will take far longer to reach optimum MPG on each journey. Talking of journeys, diesels hate doing lots of short ones, it clogs up the DPF and, as I mentioned, you get awful MPG (or at least further from the manufacturer's claims for longer than in a petrol). Diesels also tend to have more to go wrong (DPF, EGR, turbo and associated stuff) and when they do go wrong, they tend to go wrong more expensively.
That said, if you 20,000 miles per year and 90% of it is on the motorway, a diesel seems like a very sensible choice.
Well, with that said, actually I don't do many motorway miles apart from weekendsWhen you're looking at insurance quotes of £1700 and describing them as "reasonable", an extra £275pa shouldn't be too much of a concern.
Also consider that a diesel takes much longer than a petrol to warm up, so will take far longer to reach optimum MPG on each journey. Talking of journeys, diesels hate doing lots of short ones, it clogs up the DPF and, as I mentioned, you get awful MPG (or at least further from the manufacturer's claims for longer than in a petrol). Diesels also tend to have more to go wrong (DPF, EGR, turbo and associated stuff) and when they do go wrong, they tend to go wrong more expensively.
That said, if you 20,000 miles per year and 90% of it is on the motorway, a diesel seems like a very sensible choice.
Edited by Matt100HP on Monday 10th November 17:32
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