"Ride 2 Work Day"

Splitter!

 

Horses for courses.

If you want something for fun; petrol was traditionally the way to go,
but the Golf diesel GTI seems to show it's not always the way (for car
values of fun, natch).

If you want something to drive distances turbo-diesel is probably the
way to go; the engines are just more relaxed.

 

The Fuglipla showed 50,000 miles dead when I rolled into the carpark on
Tuesday.

 

s'bollocks, that is. Any decent large petrol engine can feel just as
relaxed.

 

Well, probably. You won't get the fuel consumption though.

Having said all that it's 8 years since I've had a new car; when I
stopped having a company vehicle.

If it's a vehicle I'm buying for my use (where I have to pay for the
fuel) I'd go for the turbo-diesel if there isn't a massive cost penalty.
I recently (ish) bought a petrol car because the td lump version was
just too expensive though.