What car - Diesel or petrol

[schnipps]

Posted a few weeks ago about the Leon cupra R and that i was going to pick one up towards the end of the year, around september time.

Well i have driven one and was blown away as it was just fantastic, the only obvious problem i have is the utterly mad fuel comsumption. The main problem is a new place of work which is 27 miles away, so thats over 50 miles a day 4 days a week which adding on personal mileage is not going to be cheap. So i have been looking at lots of different cars and wondered what people thought.

Im not worried about insurance to be honest and would say 14k is the utter maximum car wise, 12k being preferable.

The way i feel i dont know wether diesel is the only way to go and have started looking at the Leon FR diesel which i love the styling of, however im just not sure and would love the cupra r and keep thinking you only live once just go for it, and then have the other part of me saying putting £60 a week in a cupra r is going to be a nightmare.

So what im looking for is some alternatives for the cash i have outlined and some reasoning to go diesel or petrol.

Just completely stuck and dont know what to go for.

 

[schnipps]

You do 12k a year.

Only buy the diesel if you love the way it drives, to buy it purely from an economy point of view means you wont be saving enough to make it worthwhile.

Fair point,but i would say probably with personal mileage its nearer 14k a year. If the cupra R is 12k and the FR is 14k im not so sure. I would be buying the diesel purely for cost/fuel.

You may be right, im not sure on the diff in fuel versus the saving in car payment.

 

[schnipps]

Still not enough to warrant the extra cost of the Diesel IMHO and i'm sure others will agree.

Break it down taking into account how many miles you'd get to each car, the extra price of the Diesel to buy and fill up, etc, etc

Fox has done this before, i'm sure he'll help again.

now i'm doing over 60k miles a year....THAT warrants a Diesel!

Ok so coming from someone who has never owned a diesel why should i get the petrol? if say the figures above are true and i can get a cupra r for 12 k max and diesel for 14k surely thats only 2k more.

If the R does 25 to the gallon at best and the diesel does 50 surely over say 4 years i would save money.

Are diesels more to service?

 

[schnipps]

Thanks for everyones replies some good info in the some of the figures quoted for fuel etc, definitely something to think about and has make me think that the diesel wouldnt really save any money in the overall picture.

 

[schnipps]

Just for those saying you will have to keep it for x years to make it worth it, i intend to keep the car for at least 3 years there is no way i would change it within 3. On another note how easy are the 150 tdi's to chip and what kind of increase would it yield, how much is it etc and who does it?

 

[schnipps]

FYI - last night I looked at the trip computer's MPG by mistake, not my total average figure. I've actually averaged 22.4MPG over 7.3K in the LCR since new. Bejezus, I didn't think it was that bad

I can imagine it being that bad to be honest, i remember my mk4 2.0 golf, not fast atall but it drank fuel. Im 95% sure im gonna diesel it tbh, i have my eye on a 55 plate FR which im going to have a look at tomorrow.