Best Car For Fuel / Diesel Consumption?

Don't buy a small car for 100 mile daily trip. I did it, and after having a bigger car realised how nasty my commute was in a small car.

Would a Focus or Golf TDi fit the bill?
 
JonRohan said:
Don't buy a small car for 100 mile daily trip. I did it, and after having a bigger car realised how nasty my commute was in a small car.

Would a Focus or Golf TDi fit the bill?
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Depends what small car you get though, till recently i was doing 50+ miles a day (depends where i went though the day for work) and my Grande Punto is great, comfortable and was getting about 42mpg. On the other hand i had a Saxo before that and i had a bad back and felt exhausted when getting home.
 
I had a fiesta 1.4 diesel doing 100miles per day up the M5. It was fine and cost me very little. However, after now driving a Mazda 6 2.0 Diesel the comparison is outstanding. Not to mention I get home a little quicker. :)
 
Keep the 306 and run it into the ground.

If you must buy a new car try a Fabia vRS. Decent poke and misery fuel consumption. Not all "small" cars are horrid. Buy an up-spec one with sound deadening and some poke and they're just fine.
 
Yeah a smaller car is probably out of the question being 5"11 and 18 stone lol.

I have looked at the 1.4 TDi Golf's they are very tempting. I probably wouldn't benefit that much from buying a new car as the money I would save on fuel would go in to paying for the car itself.

The 360 has just over 80,000 miles on the clock now so it's still got life in it yet.

T.
 
Thesnipergecko said:
Budget of up to £10,000.
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You want to pay £10,000 to save £1800 a year in fuel, yet any savings you make are going to be wiped out by the annual depreciation on your £10,000 car?

Leaving you about £7,000 to 8,000 out of pocket over 5 years.....and for it to take 10 years for you just to break even. By which time your £10,000 car will have covered 240,000 miles (based on 24,000 miles per year) and will be worth nothing.

Er, that makes a lot of sense :confused:

Buy a replacement car by all means but buy it because you want a faster/sleeker/bigger/smaller/saloon/
convertible/more reliable/uglier/prettier car, not because you're trying to save money on fuel because that makes ABSOLUTELY NO FINANCIAL SENSE whatsoever.
 
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MarkDavis said:
Buy a replacement car by all means but buy it because you want a faster/sleeker/bigger/smaller/saloon/
convertible/more reliable/uglier/prettier car, not because you're trying to save money on fuel because that makes ABSOLUTELY NO FINANCIAL SENSE whatsoever.
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Listen to this man. He is speaking 100% sense.
 
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