Shame it is so much dearer than petrol

I owned 2.0 Cortinas that'd do that with no worries.

Oh, and diesel should be at least £1.50 a litre more than petrol (petrol should be £1 a litre cheaper than it is)

And its still a smelly rpm limited deseasel. Works best in ditch pumps, generators, boats, dumper trucks etc, Stuff that runs at constant rpm. Anything car related needs 55 gears to row it along.

Oddly I don't have a problem doing that, or running with 1.8T Cupra Rs (both on the strip and at silly speeds down private roads). The old farts haven't contend on still. ;)

It's that time of year again, is it? Fair enough...

"No, you are wrong, diesels require fewer gears than an equivalently powerful petrol engine"

There.

Heh

A U T O M A T I C.

Can't believe I personally am contemplating replacing my turbodiesel with a weany revvy petrol engined machine of some description.

MG ZT-T 260, Brecon beacons, you'll never want a diesel again...

Until you get to the petrol pump.

Almost anything is fun in the Beacons.

It averaged 24 mpg, and wasn't hanging about.

I know, but that MG is astonishingly good there. Better than any non-"M" BMW I've driven on similar roads.

I *will* buy one, mark my words.

Maybe sooner than planned as someone has just agreed to buy the Rangie Turbo.

I'd rather take the running year and put it into something less fugly, personally. Actually, no, I'd just buy an imported Mustang.

Thing is, I've been there, done that, have a V8 t-shirt, but ultimately I'm too tight* to run a V8.

Trust me, the Mustang doesn't handle anywhere near as well as the ZT.

We know that, but I have to try and lure you from the dark side occasionally.

There's probably a graph somewhere that says "V8" on one side, and "Dervy" on the other.

"dervy!!"

Climate. Cruise. Leather.

Pipe, slippers, tartan blanket.

Aren't you looking at the Volvo still heh?

Only in D5 R-Design SE Sport trim, though. Not quite the same, IMHO.

Volvo has 18s for a start.

Oh come on, that's like saying, a Skoda is a good car now. It's still a Skoda isn't it hehe!

What about the Caddy BLS? Built at the Saab factory by Saab engineers, Cadillac toys, GMs current range of engines, and "European" handling.

Best of all, a 1 year old one is 50% of the new price.

Lots of 75s and ZTs with 18s, and 19s.