Fast Diesels?

[Gorvid]

Slight pub fight:

What diesel cars really be fast, drivable and still worth having for the higher MPG, for UNDER £10k?

Opinions?

Or are the 'super diesels' all higher priced?

[v8will]

Fabia VRS springs to mind.

Doesn't seem so long ago that a Merc W210 TD with 177BHP seemed quick.

[2slo]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3216388.htm

[AlpineWhite]

v8will said:

Fabia VRS springs to mind.

I've got a mk1 Fabia vRS. It's not 'fast' per se, but it is reasonably quick. They remap easily though. And you can get a decent one for under £5k now, let alone 10.

[Speed_Demon]

530d....

[Laird]

Spanish 330d:


http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3150349.htm

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[MattOz]

BMW 330d/530d and even perhaps an early 535d.

Audi 3.0Tdi.

[Frik]

Fabia vrs will certainly do a good job of keeping up with a 5.0 Chim. Don't ask me how I know this.

[300bhp/ton]

Gorvid said:

Slight pub fight:

What diesel cars really be fast, drivable and still worth having for the higher MPG, for UNDER £10k?

Opinions?

Or are the 'super diesels' all higher priced?

how stock or how modded? Fast compared to what and what sort of mpg.

[BMWBen]

Sold my 55 plate e90 330d msport for 8.5k a couple of months ago...

6.3 seconds 0-60
233bhp
38mpg combined, 45 on the run.

Beat that.

In fact... why did I sell it?

[300bhp/ton]

e.g.

If this had been a 150PD and with some other additional mods also (remap, exhaust, intake)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RerSZLacmF4

[Zwoelf]

Get £275 knocked off this: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2911286.htm



Can't be many queuing up to buy one in a poverty spec 4 door body.

282bhp, 430 lb ft, Sixty in 6 secs, 155mph (limited), around 40mpg (official).

Then remap it, obviously - after which it will be able to do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/evocarreviews/2046...

Edited by Zwoelf on Monday 12th September 22:02

[eldar]

MattOz said:

BMW 330d/530d and even perhaps an early 535d.

Audi 3.0Tdi.

W204 MB C320/C350CDI

[Alex]

Some Diseasels might be fast, but they're not fun. Come on guys, this is Pistonheads; doesn't What Car? have a forum?

[300bhp/ton]

Alex said:

Some Diseasels might be fast, but they're not fun. Come on guys, this is Pistonheads; doesn't What Car? have a forum?

Just because many of the cars the engines are in are boring, doesn't mean the diesel engines are.

[2slo]

Alex said:

Some Diseasels might be fast, but they're not fun. Come on guys, this is Pistonheads; doesn't What Car? have a forum?

Yep. 3 series wins group test. What a surprise.

[Laird]

anonymous said:

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Can't see it myself.

[Zwoelf]

Laird said:

anonymous said:

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Can't see it myself.

Nor I.

[Alex]

300bhp/ton said:

Just because many of the cars the engines are in are boring, doesn't mean the diesel engines are.

Any car with a Diesel engine would be less boring with a petrol engine. 330d or 335i? I know which is more PH. Why would any true enthusiast choose the Diesel, unless they were on a restricted company car list?

[Chicane-UK]

Nevermind..