Evoque- petrol or diesel?
Discussion
Grandfondo said:
Hi guys, I drove a diesel evoke after they came out and thought the only thing that let the car down was the engine!
Has anyone bought a petrol?
What did you think of performance,economy and most importantly residuals GFV ?
GFV?Has anyone bought a petrol?
What did you think of performance,economy and most importantly residuals GFV ?
You're not thinking about FINANCE?
I thought that was the devils work and certainly not for a Powerfully Built Company Director like yourself??
daemon said:
Grandfondo said:
Hi guys, I drove a diesel evoke after they came out and thought the only thing that let the car down was the engine!
Has anyone bought a petrol?
What did you think of performance,economy and most importantly residuals GFV ?
GFV?Has anyone bought a petrol?
What did you think of performance,economy and most importantly residuals GFV ?
You're not thinking about FINANCE?
I thought that was the devils work and certainly not for a Powerfully Built Company Director like yourself??
And by the way I am not a company director!
Grandfondo said:
daemon said:
Grandfondo said:
Hi guys, I drove a diesel evoke after they came out and thought the only thing that let the car down was the engine!
Has anyone bought a petrol?
What did you think of performance,economy and most importantly residuals GFV ?
GFV?Has anyone bought a petrol?
What did you think of performance,economy and most importantly residuals GFV ?
You're not thinking about FINANCE?
I thought that was the devils work and certainly not for a Powerfully Built Company Director like yourself??
And by the way I am not a company director!
Triple7 said:
Really bad mpg for a clean sheet designed car. When bi-turbo Bimmers get 40mpg+ for their big capacity M cars, really need to sort this out LR. Is 9 speed gearbox the answer though....
That's more than a little unfair as how you drive it makes a HUGE difference to the figures.M
Grandfondo said:
The people that I have talked to have all been disappointed with the mpg!
I think what you need to do is then filter out the realistic expectations from those that have no idea what NEDC is.Claimed figures are done to a standard simulate test. A diesel turbo vehicle can excel at the test, however most people will likely drive quite differently on the road to the test standard. Thus get wildly different mpg figures.
When all said and done the Evoque is still a fairly large AWD vehicle with a large frontal area. And thus will typically manage the same mpg that such vehicles attain. Land Rover have to adhere to the same laws as physics as everyone else.
300bhp/ton said:
Grandfondo said:
The people that I have talked to have all been disappointed with the mpg!
I think what you need to do is then filter out the realistic expectations from those that have no idea what NEDC is.Claimed figures are done to a standard simulate test. A diesel turbo vehicle can excel at the test, however most people will likely drive quite differently on the road to the test standard. Thus get wildly different mpg figures.
When all said and done the Evoque is still a fairly large AWD vehicle with a large frontal area. And thus will typically manage the same mpg that such vehicles attain. Land Rover have to adhere to the same laws as physics as everyone else.
M
300bhp/ton said:
Grandfondo said:
The people that I have talked to have all been disappointed with the mpg!
I think what you need to do is then filter out the realistic expectations from those that have no idea what NEDC is.Claimed figures are done to a standard simulate test. A diesel turbo vehicle can excel at the test, however most people will likely drive quite differently on the road to the test standard. Thus get wildly different mpg figures.
When all said and done the Evoque is still a fairly large AWD vehicle with a large frontal area. And thus will typically manage the same mpg that such vehicles attain. Land Rover have to adhere to the same laws as physics as everyone else.
I do 5k a year with lots of short journeys so DPF is also a concern.
Grandfondo said:
An earlier poster said his parents are getting around 26 mpg out of a petrol so 27 mpg from a diesel is not great to be honest and the fact the diesel is pretty rough then the petrol might be the way forward for me!
I do 5k a year with lots of short journeys so DPF is also a concern.
Not meaning any offence, but if you can afford a new petrol Evoque, surely only doing 5000 miles a year in it, it almost doesn't matter what mpg it manages? The cost difference in fuel is likely to be negligible, even for widely differing mpgs.I do 5k a year with lots of short journeys so DPF is also a concern.
Re: the actual claims.
The trouble is, unless you know how and where a person gets a certain mpg and for how long or how often. The numbers don't mean a huge amount.
The person with the petrol one might be telling you their best mpg after a long steady motorway drive, while the diesel owner might be ragging their vehicle hard all the time and in a lot of start-stop traffic.
For instance, in almost every car I've owned I'm able to alter the mpg the vehicle gets buy 30-40% with relative ease (more in some cases). Depending on where I drive and how.
What you really want to find out is the type of use the vehicles is being used for and the mode average that owner gets rather than the mean average.
300bhp/ton said:
Grandfondo said:
An earlier poster said his parents are getting around 26 mpg out of a petrol so 27 mpg from a diesel is not great to be honest and the fact the diesel is pretty rough then the petrol might be the way forward for me!
I do 5k a year with lots of short journeys so DPF is also a concern.
Not meaning any offence, but if you can afford a new petrol Evoque, surely only doing 5000 miles a year in it, it almost doesn't matter what mpg it manages? The cost difference in fuel is likely to be negligible, even for widely differing mpgs.I do 5k a year with lots of short journeys so DPF is also a concern.
Re: the actual claims.
The trouble is, unless you know how and where a person gets a certain mpg and for how long or how often. The numbers don't mean a huge amount.
The person with the petrol one might be telling you their best mpg after a long steady motorway drive, while the diesel owner might be ragging their vehicle hard all the time and in a lot of start-stop traffic.
For instance, in almost every car I've owned I'm able to alter the mpg the vehicle gets buy 30-40% with relative ease (more in some cases). Depending on where I drive and how.
What you really want to find out is the type of use the vehicles is being used for and the mode average that owner gets rather than the mean average.
Nobody yet ha come back with the difference in GFV for them both?
Grandfondo said:
...I am not interested in the diesel as I mentioned in the op I drove an early one and it was pants.the real concern more than a few pounds in fuel is the residual values because most people are brainwashed into buying diesels!
TBH - I think people are starting to come around to the idea that diesel isn't as cheap/economic as it once was...M
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