Would you buy another diesel?

ChuckMountain

Somebody must have got their units mixed up, wouldn't it be 5.8 litres/100km ?  That's the normal European convention

That would make it 48.7mpg or 17.2km/l ??

Inked

That sounds more like it! Much better

AMc

I think the arguments that diesels will be priced off the road based on a couple of city exclusion zones is a bit over dramatic.
I got a French emissions sticker for my '58 Golf GTi this summer as we were visiting Lyon - never even saw the exclusion zone - it's not in the worst category by a mile.
I lived in London for over a decade, when the congestion charge was brought in there was doom and gloom about city pricing but it's come to more or less nothing.  All the time I lived there I never had any cause to register for, let alone use the zone.  London and Paris are very special cases with traffic and pollution issues.

In the long run ICE cars are not the future but I don't think I'd worry about buying a diesel now if the factors made sense.  What we're going to see now is an adjustment I think you'd be mad to buy a petrol if you do mega miles at speed.  I think you'd be crazy to buy a diesel if you do low mileage in town.  The difference may be a bit less pronounced than it was but hopefully that will discourage big diesels being used as city cars.

As a long term owner of thirsty petrol cars I've been a bit p'ed off that I've been paying massive car tax for low mileage because of CO2 emissions and some filthy diesels have been paying buttons to do astronomical distances on the same roads puking out masses of CO2 and NO2.  Car tax should be flat rate on all cars and the difference added to fuel so the polluter pays their share according to use - but that will never fly with the transport lobby so we'll always be gambling on the next chancellor's whims.

mij

I read this the other day: Diesel drivers face costly repair bill because thousands are driving illegal cars, DVSA finds

mij

You can already get this: Nissan e-NV200 - Electric Van | Nissan

It shouldn't be too long before the options get a lot better, I had a petrol Transit converted to LPG in the early 1980's and drove a Ford D type petrol lorry in the 1970's

LFC4TUNE

Oh sh*t, 5.8l/100km sorry Oops Bwahahahaha

ChuckMountain

This was the article I was referring to early its actually on the BBC

How toxic is your car exhaust? - BBC News

So in real world tests a Euro 6 diesel Nissian Qashqai is 18 times over the EU limit for NOX emissions.  Wonder how these new government "real world" tests will pan out ?

ChuckMountain

Otherwise I would check for a hole in the fuel tank

Faust

I've noticed this item in The Telegraph -

jenam93

I kept my last car for 10 years so I'm not overly concerned by residuals, and I no doubt picked up on some of the diesel fall out as although a 65 plate, it was a 2016 car with a fair few extras at ~£14k.

I did want the V40 T3 but they were like hens teeth.