I know Toyota are prinicipally a petrol/hybrid manufacturer, but has anyone driven a Toyota with the 1.4 D4-D 90bhp diesel engine in it?

 

How does it compare to a VAG unit of equivilent power? Is it refined, good on the juice, would it pull the skin off a rice pudding?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got one in a Yaris.

 

Reasonably grunty and not too nose heavy, it's a good car and cheap to service/run.

These engines seem to be built like a tank too as there are some out there with mega miles.

Yes I drove one in Ocober 2009 it was fitted to an Auris hire car I had for 5 days in Ireland and compared to the Fabia 1.9 TDI (PD100) I had at the time it was slower and had to be worked hard to get anywhere in hilly bits and the ride round some of the roads near galway was not that great

Edited 21 January, 201412 yr by WeirdKerr

Thank you for both of your replies. I have to say it seems quite a small engine for a Auris, quite suitable for a Yaris however. I can imagine that it will be bullet proof.

 

I guess the proof in the pudding would be a test drive? And what you really need to look at is the torque figures. VAG have always been good at getting plenty of torque of of an engine with relatively low BHP, eg the 105 TDi engines.

If you want to compare it, I'd say take a 1.6 TDI CR for a test drive in a Leon/Golf then compare that with the Auris.

 

I can see how it wouldn't be the most exciting in an Auris, but then again I'm not sure you buy an Auris to have an exciting car.