When will petrol engines come back to the bigger stuff?
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Hi all
A bit of idle musing if you would indulge me. I have been doing the usual browsing of the classifieds wondering what my next daily should be (damn you trusty old Accord for showing a sign of impending failure
). As I browse in my £5k budget, I’m presented with a stream of diesel estates and as usual narrowing the search field to petrol only presents far fewer choices and much increased travel distance to find ‘the one’.
I flirted with the idea of stepping down a segment to a focus sized car, and noticed petrol options much more plentiful. Taking that a step further and petrol engines are ubiquitous in the super mini, almost like they never went away. However, step up a segment from the large estate to the 4x4 and you get very slim pickings for petrol models. I know this is essentially a byproduct of the tax policies of 10 years ago and I guess in the bigger ‘suv’ categories diesel was always a popular choice even before engine performance made it the de facto standard.
Then you look at new cars up for sale today. Petrol is making it back well and truly into people’s buying list. That’s very true of the 3 car segments mentioned above.
But what about bigger stuff. Suv’s, pick ups, even vans? When will people start to spec petrols in those lines more often? I wonder how long before they are as common on the used market once again?
With the exception of Range Rover, is there a 4x4 that’s kept offering a big capacity petrol (in the U.K.) all through the diesels heyday?
Like I said. Incessant rambling. But if I wanted to take a step up to a bigger car now, let’s say I needed the towing capacity. I’m stuck with the Derv and the associated unreliability and these days probably stigma that it will bring!
A bit of idle musing if you would indulge me. I have been doing the usual browsing of the classifieds wondering what my next daily should be (damn you trusty old Accord for showing a sign of impending failure
). As I browse in my £5k budget, I’m presented with a stream of diesel estates and as usual narrowing the search field to petrol only presents far fewer choices and much increased travel distance to find ‘the one’. I flirted with the idea of stepping down a segment to a focus sized car, and noticed petrol options much more plentiful. Taking that a step further and petrol engines are ubiquitous in the super mini, almost like they never went away. However, step up a segment from the large estate to the 4x4 and you get very slim pickings for petrol models. I know this is essentially a byproduct of the tax policies of 10 years ago and I guess in the bigger ‘suv’ categories diesel was always a popular choice even before engine performance made it the de facto standard.
Then you look at new cars up for sale today. Petrol is making it back well and truly into people’s buying list. That’s very true of the 3 car segments mentioned above.
But what about bigger stuff. Suv’s, pick ups, even vans? When will people start to spec petrols in those lines more often? I wonder how long before they are as common on the used market once again?
With the exception of Range Rover, is there a 4x4 that’s kept offering a big capacity petrol (in the U.K.) all through the diesels heyday?
Like I said. Incessant rambling. But if I wanted to take a step up to a bigger car now, let’s say I needed the towing capacity. I’m stuck with the Derv and the associated unreliability and these days probably stigma that it will bring!
Edited by eltax91 on Saturday 21st July 23:29
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