Need help finding a car with decent fuel consumption.

TOPDAWG2.0 · 31-08-2010 04:59AM #1

Hey folks. i kow im prob askin the impossible here but could anyone recommend a decent car for fuel consumption.

Ive moved recently and my daily commute to work is 80 miles, 60 of that being motorway. I drive a 1.8 petrol vectra

and its eating petrol.

Any recommendations as to decent diesel car's with decent fuel consumption? I'd be lookin to keep it under the 4k mark.

Cheers folks, any advice would be much appreciated.

cooltown · 31-08-2010 06:09AM

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Skoda/Octavia/SDI-DIES/201017197811436/advert?channel=CARS

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Peugeot/407/1.6-HDI-/201034199341273/advert?channel=CARS

http://www.carzone.ie/search/Nissan/Primera/2.2-VISI/201033199262101/advert?channel=CARS

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http://www.carzone.ie/search/Ford/Focus/201023198371233/advert?channel=CARS

murphyebass · 31-08-2010 07:57AM

first cheaper but older..

http://cars.rte.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201033199261756

then a bit newer...

http://cars.rte.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201032199178187

http://cars.rte.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201032199176982

http://cars.rte.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201034199341667

For me the 1.9tdi from VW is the way forward for ya. Be it in a passat or an octavia, leon etc.. as per post above. Its quite the engine. Does serious mpg.

Out of the list above obviously watch the primera is a 2.2 and taxed on the old laws so makin it fairly hefty that way.

I think the focus looks very dated. Been a few changes since then.

And as for the French yolk dont get me started... no only kiddin meant to be a good engine in them so I'm sure it'd fine too. Newest looking motor as well.

Hard to look past the VW 1.9tdi though on your budget.

That said dont think just as its a VW badge its safe as houses. Passats for example have a leak problem in the model I showed you and the one before it that you look for damp under the driver and passanger side footwells. The ECU (brains of the motor) is underneath and obviously you dont want a flood in there feckin up you electrics. So if theres any damp run a mile. It is fixable however not easy in my experience.

That problem aside the engine is superb and is definately worth a look imo.

31-08-2010 08:07AM

Rover 75 diesel auto.

R.O.R · 31-08-2010 08:14AM

For that mileage, you also want to make sure the car is comfortable as you'll be spending a fair amount of time in it.

I drove a 407 from Cork to Dublin last Tuesday and I'm still getting cramps in my left calf because the foot rest was too near the seat, and there wasn't anywhere else to rest my left foot.

Armrest, lumbar support and A/C would be a minimum requirement for me. I'm doing 40 miles each way to the office and couldn't live without any of these comforts.

murphyebass · 31-08-2010 08:29AM

ROR, Do you really think you can get those sort of comforts for under 4 with a good diesel engine.

Unless you buy private I doubt you will.

Those sort of comforts arent generally standard on the the likes of VW for example.

For what its worth I'm with ya though ROR I would find it very hard to drive that sort of milage without A/C, armrest, cruise control.
Actually now that I think of it I wouldnt buy a car now without all 3 of those.
Thankfully I have all of them on my Alfa GT.

murphyebass · 31-08-2010 08:31AM

RoverJames wrote: »

Rover 75 diesel auto.

Good shout there RoverJames. Should be able to get one of those in budget too I'd imagine. Classy motors if you get a clean example could be worth a look.

Max Power1 · 31-08-2010 08:35AM

RoverJames wrote: »

Rover 75 diesel auto.

probably the best combination of good MPG fused with comfort and spec avaialble at that budget.

There are a couple under 5 grand on carzone atm IIRC.

Most of the diesel 75's came with leather, armrest, AC etc.

murphyebass · 31-08-2010 08:51AM

http://cars.rte.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201030198982439

rover 75 in budget. Diesel, Auto, A/C, Armrest, NCT'd till March 2011

€3250 so should get it a bit cheaper. Some amount of car for say you get it for 3k which I'm sure you could easily enough.

bazz26 · 31-08-2010 10:35AM

Comfy and roomy cruiser:
http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=201034199306818

Gophur · 31-08-2010 10:39AM

A Berlingo van?

There will be thousands of them coming on the market soon, for peanuts!

bazz26 · 31-08-2010 11:01AM

I wouldn't fancy doing 80 miles per day in a Berlingo van. Comfort on long trips would not be a strong point of those vans imo.

31-08-2010 11:10AM

Gophur wrote: »

A Berlingo van?

There will be thousands of them coming on the market soon, for peanuts!

Not really, a couple of hundred extra road tax won't force many folk to flog them on. Maybe folks in 3.0 4wd etc may be forced to but I doubt folks in 1.9s will.

anthony4335 · 31-08-2010 01:06PM

It would seem that the french small diesels are the best performers in the MPG listing, C1/C2 ,clio .

R.O.R · 31-08-2010 01:19PM

anthony4335 wrote: »

It would seem that the french small diesels are the best performers in the MPG listing, C1/C2 ,clio .

I wouldn't fancy spending 2-4 hours a day in a super mini - 60 miles on a motorway in one of them is my idea of hell, and you'd probably find the fuel consumption falls off at motorway speeds.

I was getting better MPG from a 2.0Tdi 170bhp Superb than I was from a Passat 1.6Tdi Bluemotion - same journey, pretty much same volume of traffic.

TOPDAWG2.0 · 31-08-2010 02:03PM

Deadly lads. Thanks a mill. Workin at the moment but will have a proper look through all this later. Thanks again.

murphyebass · 31-08-2010 02:05PM

R.O.R wrote: »

I wouldn't fancy spending 2-4 hours a day in a super mini - 60 miles on a motorway in one of them is my idea of hell, and you'd probably find the fuel consumption falls off at motorway speeds.

I was getting better MPG from a 2.0Tdi 170bhp Superb than I was from a Passat 1.6Tdi Bluemotion - same journey, pretty much same volume of traffic.

I'm with you ROR. Small car for mile munching would be hell on earth.

You want comfort ie family saloon size, eg passat and extras as stated A/C, Armrest, Cruise and 6 speed if ya can get it.

Need help finding a car with decent fuel consumption.

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