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I personally am in the "I like the way it drives" category but economics also come into it. Wife has a Ceed SW CRDi and does about 12,000 miles a year, most would say petrol territory. We keep our cars 5 to 6 years on average thus that's what I base my calcs on when purchasing. Her are my sums briefly comparing the petrol Ceed SW to our diesel.
Fuel 12,000 miles (mpg's estimated from our own figures and HJ real economy) @ 35mpg in petrol = 340 gallons a year, @ 50mpg in diesel = 240 gallons a year saving 100 gallons a year thus saving.approx £600 a year.
Road Tax, petrol 151 CO2's = £165 a year, diesel 124 CO2's = £95 a year thus saving £70 a year.
Servicing is the same for both the petrol and diesel version over 5 years at our dealer thus nothing either way.
Based on that our saving is £670 a year or £3,350 over 5 years.
Our diesel cost us about £1,200 more that the petrol when we bought it bring the savings down to £2,150 but at the end of 5 years our diesel will be worth a few hundread more than the petrol equivalent based on our past experiences so lets say £600 (Parkers say a 5 year old diesel SW is worth £1,300 more than the equivalent petrol but I am taking a more conservative estimate, hope they are right) which takes the savings over 5 years back upto £2,750.
We have been lucky in the past and had no problems with DMF's and DPF's etc but there is always a first time. In the Ceed there is no DMF thus we can forget that and the DPF is covered under the 7 year warranty thus we can forget about that as well.
Think I will continue buying one diesel for the forseable future.
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