If i wasnt paying for my fuel id be running round in a aston martin vantage!

I would happily pay for the fuel for an Aston Martin if someone was picking up the bills to buy it and service it!

I was/am thinking about changing to an Audi A4

So you won't be posting on Briskoda about the 1.8TSI's 7.whatever 0-60 time any more? :'( :'(

Either buy a VRS petrol or don't. Diesel for economy. 1.8 TSI for wannabe VRS. Stop dripping on and on about Mpg. They are all different even if only by a bit. If you want an out and out stunning performance car buy a Scooby. Then you pay through the nose but get to brag about 0-60 times. Guys it's a family car with reasonable performance. The constant threads about this are getting ultra dull.

On that basis everybody driving anything faster than a VRS has it purely for boasting?

Pretty well.

If you really like driving then get a second car - something small and seat of the pants like a Caterham and take it on track days where you can drive it to the limit. 10 times more fun then you'll get in pretty well any normal road car.

If you havent done so try & drive both, That may swing it

Also look at depreciation, Diesels tend to hold up well but with the dreaded DPF issues slowly becoming known to the s/hand trade values may well take a knock.

I recently bought a diesel, not VRS & budgeted to remove the dpf. I went this route as the car will probably do 40K a year & will be kept for 150-200,000 so Diesel makes sense.

With youir kind of mileage I would look at Petrol Im afraid, New is always a good feeling, you have an extra years warranty.

I havent been in a CR but I find it hard to believe that it will feel as smooth as the Petrol car. If times get really bad the Petrol can be swapped onto gas, the CR is so refined it wont even run on cooking oil like the old Diesels.

At the end of it its personal choice & threads like this sometimes only add to confusion rather than clarity

If you havent done so try & drive both, That may swing it

Also look at depreciation, Diesels tend to hold up well but with the dreaded DPF issues slowly becoming known to the s/hand trade values may well take a knock.

I recently bought a diesel, not VRS & budgeted to remove the dpf. I went this route as the car will probably do 40K a year & will be kept for 150-200,000 so Diesel makes sense.

With youir kind of mileage I would look at Petrol Im afraid, New is always a good feeling, you have an extra years warranty.

I havent been in a CR but I find it hard to believe that it will feel as smooth as the Petrol car. If times get really bad the Petrol can be swapped onto gas, the CR is so refined it wont even run on cooking oil like the old Diesels.

At the end of it its personal choice & threads like this sometimes only add to confusion rather than clarity

It is as smooth as a petrol car! My mate actually thought it was a petrol when he got in it and started the engine!

Don't think DPF is really an issue on the CR unless you really should have bought a petrol because of the journey's you do.

If i wasnt paying for my fuel id be running round in a aston martin vantage!

If your driving 50k a year then you need to be happy with what your driving as thats a long time behind the wheel in a car you dont like just to be economical,i know i couldnt do that kind of mileage a year in a car i didnt like but was economical.

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And that is why I bought the L&K. Electric adjusting driver seat, Alcantara and leather combination, Adaptive Xenon light, DSG with both Tipronic and paddle shift with 7th gear making it a very quite place to be. Full Blue Tooth kit with steering wheel controls. Fantastically confortable today. 300 miles today, feel fresh averaged 49 mpg on way home.

Lol....if you are driving 50k a year why havent you got a diesel? (i only do 12k a year so i have a petrol!)

Because buy price difference, about £5K between a Diesel VRS and L&K 1.8 DSG TSI, is much more important than the fuel price difference which, with a company fuel card, is only a few hundred quid a year (as I only pay for 40% of fuel price as BIK and offset that).

As I said the 2 best things I like about the diesels are stopping less often for fuel and servicing less. Much prefer the petrol power delivery ie 1500-7000 rpm surge.

It is as smooth as a petrol car! My mate actually thought it was a petrol when he got in it and started the engine!

Don't think DPF is really an issue on the CR unless you really should have bought a petrol because of the journey's you do.

If you read the posts on here the DPf's seem to be failing as the cars rack up miles, hense my comment about it hitting s/hand prices

If you read the posts on here the DPf's seem to be failing as the cars rack up miles, hense my comment about it hitting s/hand prices

On the CR's? Can't say i've seen any... As long as they are getting up to temp they shouldn't get clogged up.

On the CR's? Can't say i've seen any... As long as they are getting up to temp they shouldn't get clogged up.

Mine failed at 40k miles. Replaced under warranty, eventually.

If outside warranty would have either been expensive replacement or cheaper removal.

On the CR's? Can't say i've seen any... As long as they are getting up to temp they shouldn't get clogged up.

Yep Fair comment, mainly PD's, lets hope as the CR's get older they wont suffer