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  • #52
    ineedeuro
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 989 ✭✭✭ineedeuro


    ELM327 wrote: »
    Agree. If I were doing 36 km each way (especially if I had charging at work) I'd buy something nice like a 745e or X5 45e. PHEV.

    I would be in an X5 PHEV now but the swap out the back seats for the battery so into a durty diesel :P


  • #53
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    ineedeuro wrote: »
    A diesel engine is built for long distance, 36km is not long distance and only in Ireland would it be classified as long distance, If you live in the UK they would laugh at you even considering a diesel for that distance

    The question wouldn't even be asked, you would be spinning around in a petrol/PHEV/electric. Yes you can buy a diesel if the specific vehicle is not available in any other fuel but that would be the only reason.

    Ireland is not the UK. Different pricing structure for new cars (because of no VRT) and diesel is dearer than petrol over there.

    It's not necessarily distance, it's the type of usage. Diesel is the best option for anyone who mostly does motorway or main road driving regardless of distance involved. Maybe PHEV if you got one with a sufficiently large battery, but they are expensive.

    Anyway, the OP has said 30k is his budget, so that rules out anything that isn't a traditional petrol or diesel, apart from a hybrid (which won't do the mpg of a diesel on that kind of drive cycle).


  • #54
    john_doe.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭john_doe.


    ELM327 wrote: »
    Agree. If I were doing 36 km each way (especially if I had charging at work) I'd buy something nice like a 745e or X5 45e. PHEV.

    No charging at work .
    Also budget is 30-40k not 30k , could stretch 42 K.
    Been an interesting discussion as I do think the motor market is a bit uncertain right now


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