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Petrol.
Petrol engines are smoother, quieter, more enjoyable to drive and way easier to start (winter), also petrol evaporates = no greasy pump nozzles at your local fuel station. But, it's mainly the drive comfort for me. Life is too short, enjoy what you do or don't do it at all.
And the DPF is yet to come to petrol engines. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI; MZ 150 ETZ, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor |
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Seriously walk or cycle to work if you can carry the stuff you need, or else buy a nasty old city car beater (will be a petrol) if you have to carry tools etc.
Save cash and buy a nice weekend or distance car if you can then justify it?
Oh and what's all this another std BCF response about Petrol=good to drive and Diesel= shit to drive? Are you all gonna call that out irrespective of make, model engine version and transmission? Do you want to add an '' All automatics are totally shit, and all manual cars across every size and type are fucking awesome?"
There's good and bad to drive cars, and fun to drive and non fun to drive cars in all fuel types, and all transmission types too.If BCF blanket believes in the above paragraph then I can't believe the shit I'm reading. Its exactly like a 25year old heard down the pub a few times Teflon Mike response. Thought we could do better than that? Or is it that all BCF'ers are because into bikes only ever going to be happy with the most fastest car only?
Similar bollocks was written in a previous thread about mk1 Ford Focus's. It boiled down to the only engined variant that anyone on this forum could possibly recommend was the 2.0 petrol. All said like the Focus was an amazing car and with this rare engine it was like some amazing car. But don't ever buy one at your peril with a 1.4 or 1.6L engine as it's guaranteed to be the biggest load of shit you'll ever see. Fucking lol! |
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Sorry I stated I did less than 10k over the last 2 years, I meant each year so roughly 8k per year, still not really the amount to justify a diesel.
I actually don't mind how diesels drive, plenty of low down torque.
The consensus seems to be get a petrol? I guess I'll keep looking for a petrol then, there's 3 times as many diesel 120d's as there are 125i's on auto trader, so may be harder to find a decent one!
I tried cycling to work, but in winter you get piss wet through and I can't be arsed showering at work. Summer you get sweaty and need a shower too.
What is considered high milage on a petrol 125i nowadays? For diesels I always looked at ones at roughly 100k miles, but no idea what the equivalent would be on a petrol? ____________________ DRZ400-SM
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Swift Sport, try one. 1.6 petrol, no turbo, no dpf (obviously) just a super reliable well specced short hopper.
I had a Fabia vRS a few cars ago and the Swift would run rings around it on any kind of twisty road. They have
been around since 2007 so there are examples to suit most budgets. That said, I'd quickly just get used to walking
to work if it was a mile away. I walk the dog at least 5 miles a day, a mile twice a day is nothing. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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For a 1 mile commute, I'd walk too. It's 15 minutes, a no brainer.
Then for a car, for the mileage you do I doubt you'd see any benefit of buying the more expensive diesel for the higher MPG figures.
Buy what you want ____________________ I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
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I might reconsider my commute then, I could leave some clothes at work so and it's mostly downhill so wouldn't be too sweaty
Then I could get a diesel for my fortnightly 250 mile round trip. Suzuki swift sport looks like fun! Not a fan of the 3 series, they look a bit barge like, comfy I'm sure but don't look very sporty and I would assume more expensive. ____________________ DRZ400-SM
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DRZ4Hunned wrote: | I might reconsider my commute then, I could leave some clothes at work so and it's mostly downhill so wouldn't be too sweaty
Then I could get a diesel for my fortnightly 250 mile round trip. Suzuki swift sport looks like fun! Not a fan of the 3 series, they look a bit barge like, comfy I'm sure but don't look very sporty and I would assume more expensive. |
But you still don't need a diesel for your 500 miles a month on a motorway... Can you not walk the mile? Why even cycle? And still, a mile on a bike you'll have hardly got yourself warm.
I commute 250 miles a week. I've done the commute on/in: a ZZR600, a Suzuki Ignis Sport (the swift sport before the swift sport), Suzuki SX4 (with a turbo'd M15) - that one isn't friendly on the wallet - VPower and not great mpg, and now the ZZR1100.
Out of those only the SX4 hurt/s my wallet. That's 200 a month in petrol at my mileage, i.e. 1000 miles a month.
If you walked to work, and had a car that only did 25 mpg, the likes of an RX8 or something, you're fuel bill would be <100 quid a month for your motorway trips. ____________________ I'm Sam; Northern, Ginger, Lover
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DrSnoosnoo wrote: | But you still don't need a diesel for your 500 miles a month on a motorway... Can you not walk the mile? Why even cycle? And still, a mile on a bike you'll have hardly got yourself warm.
I commute 250 miles a week. I've done the commute on/in: a ZZR600, a Suzuki Ignis Sport (the swift sport before the swift sport), Suzuki SX4 (with a turbo'd M15) - that one isn't friendly on the wallet - VPower and not great mpg, and now the ZZR1100.
Out of those only the SX4 hurt/s my wallet. That's 200 a month in petrol at my mileage, i.e. 1000 miles a month.
If you walked to work, and had a car that only did 25 mpg, the likes of an RX8 or something, you're fuel bill would be <100 quid a month for your motorway trips. |
Just double checked the exact distance to work, it's 1.9 miles and would apparently take 38 mins to walk according to Google. Cba walking 38 mins each way every day, but cycling is only 10/15 mins so about the same as the car which is fine and would keep me fit(er). Don't really see the point in getting a petrol if I'm only going to use it for long motorway journeys in this case even if the fuel cost is not much, it could be less. I often have to carry shopping on the way back from work and football stuff so that 2 days a week I'd need to drive. Plenty to think about ____________________ DRZ400-SM
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Diesel MPG is shocking whilst the engine is cold, barely going to warm up in a mile...
That being said I would still suggest the Diesel for the long motorway journey and get a push bike for the mile or so to work. I'm riding > 10 miles each way myself (albeit not all year round of course)... That and I prefer diesel because I'm to lazy to use a clutch in traffic and to cheap for an auto |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 218 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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