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The 1.4 is available with DSG in the Audi Q3 (2wd). Very pricey, but probably holds its value as well as a BMW.

Interesting! I know my 1.6 D2 Euro 5 Volvo has a DPF, and I wasn't aware that any manufacturer had managed to achieve Euro 5 emission standards without one. Anyway, Euro 6 is even more difficult to achieve, and it remains to be seen just how reliable the new engines will be. I hope the VAG engines using Adblue are more successful than Volvo's Euro 6 engine efforts (which don't). Repeated problems with EGR Valves and Coolers have now forced Volvo into remapping the engines which has reduced low speed torque and spoiled them.

Unless someone has been at it with a hacksaw, I think you will find your Volvo does have a DPF.

Oh dear, plenty of problems there!

Are you sure that this is the engine (148 bhp cambelt ) in the Q3? I am also interested in a compact automatic petrol SUV with 2-wheel drive, and was considering the Yeti when the Q3 was announced. I would prefer the 1.4 engine that Skoda UK decides not to allow us, so the Q3 seems ideal. However, Audi do not say which engine it is. My concern is that it is the same twin-charged 1.4 that is offered in the Tiguan, which by all accounts is to be avoided. I was under the impression that the "new" cambelt engines were only fitted in MQB platform vehicles as in the Octavia. I would be very pleased if the VW Group as a whole got its act together and provided proper information and offered more choice of specs in the UK, like it seems to in the rest of Europe!