Motors Who drives a diesel?

As you can guess, I was wondering how many people drive diesels.

So who does? And what car is it, what's your mpg like?

I'll start us off:

Skoda Fabia vRS - 45mpg on my 15 mile A and B road commute to work in reasonable traffic.

 

me! 2004 Audi A3 3DR 2.0 TDI. 50MPG typical on my 16m commute.

 

Me too. Peugeot 306 HDi Estate. ~40-50mpg depending on how mad I drive down the country roads on my 12 mile commute. If I'm on a long run on the motorway I can get about 50mpg.

Andy

 

Crappy net connection at work leads to mulitple posts. Sorry!

 

Me too:

Jaguar S-Type 2.7d V6 - 25ish round town, high 30's on a long cruise. All depends on how heavy my boot has been feeling.
Renault Laguna 1.9Dci - 45ish on motorway commutes to MK and back (Mrs GOOs)

 

Normally I drive a petrol corsa, but I regularly drive a Defender 300CDI (2.5L turbo) The manual claims 20mpg
Not sure what it's actually doing though [it's only done 110,000, '94 model so it's in fairly good nick so I'd assume it's still 20ish].

 

Ah yes motorway mpg, shoulda put that up, I got 55mpg cruising at 70 from croydon to slough and back last weekend (from one hell to another)

 

Ford Focus 1.8TDI around 50mpg normally.

 

Jetta TDI 2005.5 which is VW speak for changing the model mid year.

After I got it retuned I don't see as good of mileage as I did but I still hover in the low 40s, and I can light up the tires going into 2nd .

BTW: Help me pick my replacement grill http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=148727

 

+1

 

'54 Vectra 1.9 tdci (sadly only the 120ps* version, not the 150) gets me about 45-50mpg on a 25-mile each way commute.

* - ps is metric for bhp (I think)

 

Normally MAN or a Volvo.

Not quite sure about engine type and vehicle model, though. They all run diesel, that's for sure

 

Skoda Fabia 1.9TDI. 40-45mpg city, 55-60mpg motorway.

Thinking of upgrading to a Honda Civic S GT. Diesel, of course.

 

Nissan Terrano II 3.0Tdi, about 32-ish non-motorway, around 35-ish on motorway.

 

Golf GTTDI for me, 45 ish round the doors and 60 ish on the long motorway trips.

 

pug 106 1.5d here, hadn't worked out the mpg but was getting about 75-80 miles for a tenner, a sketchy conversion comes out about 33-35 mpg mostly city driving with a tad of motorway...

On a side note anyone know if its easy/difficult/pain in the ass to replace the front hub on one of these? I had a puncture and I've (stupidly) managed to cross thread the studs - hence wobbly wheel = not good

oh yeah don't worry I'm not driving it while its like this

 

Fiat Ducato 14 SWB with Swift Kontiki 650 S Coach. 2.5TDI, couldn't tell you the mpg atm although I've heard the norm is around 25. Only used for holidays/short breaks.

 

1979 Mercedes Benz 300D. 0-60mph in, oh, 27 seconds new. As for mpg, I haven't actually tested it but I'd say b/w 25-30mpg, mostly in-town driving.

1 300D - A/C - radio + "pleather" seats + magentic block heater I plug in every winter = my baby.

 

1996 VW Golf 2L Turbo Diesel, in new zealand speak get around 650-700km off of about 45 litres of diesel. Relitivly short drive 15kms but half in city half on 100km open road.

Convert to silly UK stats

 

I drive an Audi R8 V12 TDi.