06-07-2014, 10:31 PM
Hello,
Some of you may know I made a complete cock up last week with choosing a newer car...while it filled the eco and simple engine credentials, the ride comfort was so bad it was making me feel ill on the country roads near my house, obviously not ideal lol.
Anyway, it turns out all small cars have this shit solid ride (I thought they were for old people, no wonder they get arthritis!)...so I'm looking at larger 'midsize' cars again for the ride comfort, but for similar economy/tax and sensible power (around 10-12 seconds to 60 is fine) I've gotta look at diesels...which I was avoiding due to turbos/DPFs etc.
So I want sensible opinions on newer, eco'ish diesels (no, Piggy, that doesn't mean a vegged XUD lol). Is the 1.6HDi/TDCi really as bad as it seems? How about the VAG 2.0TDi? Any others? Ruan mentioned a HDi (2.0 iirc) in Volvos but there aren't any locally or in budget so that's off lol.
And should I be worried about DPFs? Being honest, I drive like an arse most of the time, always rushing about and majority of my driving is on B roads between 40-60 so I doubt a DPF would get clogged like that?
Anyway, I'm sure this will fill up with '306s are da best' but hopefully not.
Cheers
Tom
Some of you may know I made a complete cock up last week with choosing a newer car...while it filled the eco and simple engine credentials, the ride comfort was so bad it was making me feel ill on the country roads near my house, obviously not ideal lol.
Anyway, it turns out all small cars have this shit solid ride (I thought they were for old people, no wonder they get arthritis!)...so I'm looking at larger 'midsize' cars again for the ride comfort, but for similar economy/tax and sensible power (around 10-12 seconds to 60 is fine) I've gotta look at diesels...which I was avoiding due to turbos/DPFs etc.
So I want sensible opinions on newer, eco'ish diesels (no, Piggy, that doesn't mean a vegged XUD lol). Is the 1.6HDi/TDCi really as bad as it seems? How about the VAG 2.0TDi? Any others? Ruan mentioned a HDi (2.0 iirc) in Volvos but there aren't any locally or in budget so that's off lol.
And should I be worried about DPFs? Being honest, I drive like an arse most of the time, always rushing about and majority of my driving is on B roads between 40-60 so I doubt a DPF would get clogged like that?
Anyway, I'm sure this will fill up with '306s are da best' but hopefully not.
Cheers
Tom