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Why have petrol cars not been fazed out

  • 18-10-2011 3:23pm
    #1
    Walker34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭


    Every dealer I talk to seems to dismiss petrol cars as virtually worthless (especially when you want to trade one in) against a diesel equivalent. The differential in price/liter is getting smaller by the day and apart from the higher mpg the petrol is a nicer engine. Are petrol cars being phased out or is it just more sales guff then fact.


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  • #2
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    Walker34 wrote: »
    more sales guff then fact.
    Thats my gut feeling.


  • #3
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    their opinion depends if they are buying or selling:rolleyes:


  • #4
    Walker34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 425 ✭✭Walker34


    Would not be surprised if diesel ended up dearer than petrol next year.....only 5.2c in the difference per liter in one garage today.


  • #5
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    They can't possibly be phased out until there is a viable alternative. The simple fact is that, despite everyone running around like lunatics trying to buy diesels because of their low tax(for now), modern diesels are not suited to everyones needs.

    Its been covered a hundred times on here but for low mileage or constant city driving, a modern petrol engine is a much better option.


  • #6
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    OP is clearly not well up on modern petrol engines. The PSA 1.4 petrol engine can return mpg figures that VAG 1.9 TDis were doing a few years back, and doesn't spit out the harmful poisons that a diesel engine does. And despite the entire country behaving like sheeple and buying diesel, most of the country doesn't need diesel. When people all start having DPF issues in the next 3-4 years from doing short journeys in cars designed for longs ones, they'll all start reverting to fuel efficient petrol engines again.


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  • #7
    Squall19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Squall19


    Owen wrote: »
    OP is clearly not well up on modern petrol engines. The PSA 1.4 petrol engine can return mpg figures that VAG 1.9 TDis were doing a few years back, and doesn't spit out the harmful poisons that a diesel engine does. And despite the entire country behaving like sheeple and buying diesel, most of the country doesn't need diesel. When people all start having DPF issues in the next 3-4 years from doing short journeys in cars designed for longs ones, they'll all start reverting to fuel efficient petrol engines again.

    Which 1.4 is that?

    I haven't seen any 1.4 compete with a good diesel, say what you want about the 1.9 tdi but it is good on fuel.

    No 1.4 psa petrol is getting 60mpg consistently like those old school engines!


  • #8
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Really? You'd be surprised so. I've driven the 1.4 MINI One, and got over 50mpg in it pootling along in 6th. That was a combined cycle, if I got it on the open road and really drove like a Nun, I could have got more. Having said that, I got 85mpg out of the Diesel MINI too.

    Petrol engines are becoming extremely efficient these days.


  • #9
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Owen wrote: »
    The PSA 1.4 petrol engine can return mpg figures that VAG 1.9 TDis were doing a few years back, and doesn't spit out the harmful poisons that a diesel engine does.
    Tsk Tsk Owen, don't you know CO2 is the real killer. Apparently one 2L petrol can produce 5 times as much highly taxeable CO2 as a Chinese industrial estate on top of an active volcano.


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