Does no-one buy Petrol cars anymore?!

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I'm on the look out for a E-Class (E350 CGI) coupe for my cousin. A petrol in particular. Now these cars are hardly rare, they appear to be extremely popular and there are lots about so I didn't think this would be a problem.

Did a search on AT. 7 petrol cars within 200 miles with a 35k budget! What?! Three of them are E200's, and there's only one E350 CGI, which is red.

Change the criteria to Diesel and there's over 100!

Considering the E-Class coupe is relatively premium car I'd have thought that it wasn't bought by everyone with 'GOTS TO BE DIESEL!1111' attitude.

Ah well.

No real point to this thread... was just surprised.
 
my current car is petrol..and my next will be as well

I only do about 9k miles a year...no point in sacrificing driving pleasure and power delivery for saving a few pennies per tank
 
For executive cars you are right, virtually no-one buys petrol any more.

Most are company cars for the first part of their life, so CO2 is key.

95% of 5-series registered in 2011 were diesel. E-class was slightly better with 79% diesel.
 
Still the 7 or 8p difference makes diesels unworthy unless you do ubermilage (dependant on the power of your car, how you drive it etc, initial higher price of diesel)
 
Diesels are far from terrible. Quite the opposite. The E350 CDI is very quiet, not just from the inside but even from the outside. I think the 'tractor' perception is vastly outdated. Nonetheless would much prefer the petrol.

It seems soon enough it'll be either buy brand new or get a diesel.
 
Petrol cars are being out sold massively and large engine petrol cars are depreciating at an astonishing rate.

But...

In the next 5 years I'm expecting petrol prices to be quite a bit lower than diesel. Supply and demand. I also vaguely remember reading from a given amount of crude oil you get more petrol than diesel, if this is true then petrol prices have to fall.
 
gigeorge said:
Still the 7 or 8p difference makes diesels unworthy unless you do ubermilage (dependant on the power of your car, how you drive it etc, initial higher price of diesel)
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Not just the fuel though, as said a lot of these are company cars and you get screwed over even more by picking petrol over diesel :(
 
I'm looking for an Octavia 1.8 petrol. Plenty of 1.4s around though everyone seems to have gone manual with very few choosing the DSG. 1.8s Autos are rarer still :(
 
99% of Exec cars will be diesel because of the company car CO2 savings.

I've just got a new petrol car though, with a great 1.6 EcoBoost engine :)
Petrol is definitely on a comeback now !!!
 
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