dieselsautomatics

redferrari

wonder if anyone has any experience of diesel automatic cars. Am thinking of changing for one soon. Automatic for present traffic conditions and diesel for economy, but the combination doesn't seem that popular and the Japanese makers seem to avoid them completely. Can't think why.Anyone any ideas? thanks.

Martron

the mother has the astra sxi. its diesel with auto box. its very nippy car and you can also select semi automatic which is quite fun also.

as for economy if you floor it the economy is nothing special but again with most cars . but drive it sensibly and the economy according to her is great.

i know i dont have figures, but she reckons its a gret car. and i suppsoe with modern diesel engines you will not notice much difference than a petrol.

apart from the different engine noise

E39MSport

e39 530d auto gives 33mpg while the manual gives 45 on the same run.

Stephen

Wow, that's a pretty sizeable difference in consumption just for an autobox.

Mr Benevolent

OP what's your budget? You can get DSG diesel autos with no fuel penalty. The BMW 330d is well known for having a big efficiency discrepancy between manual and auto.

redferrari

Thanks for the replies people. I understand there would be a higher fuel consumtion with the automatic; hence the option for a diesel. Didn't know that about the DSG though. Will look into it. And budget? about 12K max I'd say.

Mr Benevolent

Octavia DSG TDI

Another one

And another

Golf DSG TDI

redferrari

Thanks a bunch Confab. Have to admit the name Skoda was in the back of my mind!

testicle

Confab wrote: »

Octavia DSG TDI

Jaysus, who'd pay 11K for a 4 year old 1.9 Octavia!

Mr Benevolent

testicle wrote: »

Jaysus, who'd pay 11K for a 4 year old 1.9 Octavia!

True, they're not as cheap as they should be. There was an 06 DSG TDI Octavia knocking around 2 weeks ago for €6,800 :eek:

Barr

Diesel Autos are very rare in Ireland , You'b be better off importing from the UK market - far more to choice from there.

Wishbone Ash

Barr wrote: »

Diesel Autos are very rare in Ireland

They're hardly rare - nearly every Merc diesel is an auto!

_Kaiser_

There's an increasing amount of them though, but mostly the German brands (BMW, Merc, VAG) and generally bigger engined cars.
I'm on my 2nd diesel auto Passat (02 and 06 models) and my current one is a 2L DSG that is fantastic and far superior to the older 1.9 non-DSG version.

Barr

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

They're hardly rare - nearly every Merc diesel is an auto!

Ok I'll rephrase it , if you didn't want a Mercedes your options are pretty limited