Hi All

 

I am needing to get a car that passes ULEZ in London.  My 1.6 Diesel doesn’t do this.

 

Has anyone here made the switch from a 1.6 Diesel to 1.0 Petrol….

 

I am particularly interested in motorway driving and overall performance.  
 

cheers

The 1.0 petrol comes in various power levels

 

MPI is bit underpowered, fine as a runabout, but not really for motorway

The tsi (turbo) versions are surprisingly good, very free reving, and surprisingly frugal, even when cold.   Either power level will be fine.
 

By far the best combination is the 1.0 tsi 110 with DSG gearbox, it keeps it in sweet spot, the changes are silky smooth, and because it has 7 gears is always responsive.  
 

The manual petrol versions can be hard work in traffic as the engine is not as happy at pulling from low revs as a diesel, so can lots of gear changing.  To be honest try the DSG box, you will never want to change gear manually again (you can, with DSG, but probably won’t ever use the manual option)

 

One thing you will notice though, is the modern petrol engines offer virtually no engine braking when going down hills