Small cars petrol v diesel

starlit

I was reading an article recently on the new yaris model.
http://www.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-reviews/cut-your-cloth-according-to-measure-with-petrol-in-yaris-30788782.html

The reviewer seems to maintain that a small car like a yaris is better to drive with petrol than diesel? Would you agree with this. He recommends a bigger car a corolla with diesel if wanting a diesel car with slightly more engine power than the yaris 1.0/1.3 petrol.

Understandable that a 1.4 diesel suits motorway driving better than a 1.0 or 1.3 petrol car. 1.0/1.3 petrol suit town/city/country driving better?
What you think?

Would an Auris or an opel astra be a better option with 1.3 petrol/1.4 diesel. I've driven a few different types of cars as part of my driving lessons and didn't like the opel corsa, but liked the kia (can't remember which model) and liked yaris. Yaris or auris be a better buy? Yaris for petrol 1.3 or auris 1.4 diesel or vice versa?

Bpmull

It depends on whether or not you need a diesel. That depends on your annual mileage as well as the type of driving you do all city, motorway, national roads, heavy traffic. For city driving or only short trips petrol is better as it will prove more reliable under these conditions. Diesel like nice long trips where they can properly warm up and become efficient so it depends.

starlit

Its mostly country and town driving I do. The odd hour-two hour journeys. Only go on motorway a few times in the year not that often. I say since I got the car I have it was 40,000km in millage and now roughly 65,000km in millage so roughly 10,000km-15,000km a year.

marco_polo

doovdela wrote: »

Its mostly country and town driving I do. The odd hour-two hour journeys. Only go on motorway a few times in the year not that often. I say since I got the car I have it was 40,000km in millage and now roughly 65,000km in millage so roughly 10,000km-15,000km a year.

Once it is not all town driving no harm looking at the diesel as regular spins above 80 kph will keep the dpf nice and clear. After that it just a matter of doing the maths on the price difference vs running costs, milage wise you're more in petrol territory really. Sounds like either would suit you pretty well though, definately no totally wrong option with that mix of driving.

starlit

I suppose either suit. I often be in 80km or 100km zones. Very little city driving at the moment mainly town driving. I have a tendency to race the engine and give it full pelt. Maybe diesel be better? Its a petrol car I have at the moment and find I haven't enough power with a 1.0 L to over-take tractors sometimes or just about manage to over take slower cars on the main roads. I find its frustrating for other cars too as they often over-take me! I quiet like the fiesta's but they might not suit me, I find the yaris/auris might suit me better.

colm_mcm

A Diesel engine in a car like a yaris transforms it IMO.
The 1.0 3 cylinder isn't a pleasant engine in a car like the current yaris. It was fun in the aygo 9 years ago in a rorty, rev it to the redline kinda way, but not in a car that's supposed to be refined.
The 1.33 petrol is a lovely engine in the yaris too, but nobody buys it.
I would suspect as well that the article may have been influenced and is not entirely the authors opinion.