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  • GO GREEN WITH MOTABILITY AND SAVE MONEY 23 Feb 2009 (News)
    their fuel tank. The Volkswagen Polo 1.4TDI Match 3/5dr and the Vauxhall Corsa 1.3CDTi Life 3/5dr, both with CO2 emissions of 119g/km, are currently available through Motability with nil advance payments. TRY DIESEL
  • Ford Powershift 'auto' Now More Widely Available 14 Aug 2009 (News)
    , enabling the driver to make swift and smooth manual changes when the lever is moved forwards (to change down) or backwards (to change up). The strong torque output of the TDCi diesel engine allows a high sixth gear ratio, leading to relaxed cruising with excellent fuel economy and enhanced
  • Rare Vauxhall Corsa Diesel Auto On Offer 27 May 2011 (News)
    Over the years, one of the cars Overton Car Sales gets asked for a 'Small Diesel Automatic with 5 Doors and Air Conditioning'. Traditionally, this is a specification that is only available on much bigger cars, and a search on Autotrader of nearly 400,000 cars reveals less than ten diesel
  • Volkswagen to increase use of plug-in hybrid tech 9 May 2011 (News)
    that runs on E85, a fuel which isn’t commonly available in the UK but is in Scandinavia, and a new 2.0 TDI diesel engine for the US market, with improved fuel economy and reduced CO2 emissions. 
  • Honda Civic in record-breaking 100mpg real world run 8 Jul 2015 (News)
    and Julian Warren (pictured), the car achieved a 932-mile tank average. That means that the entire fuel cost of the 1.6-litre i-DTEC diesel car was just £459, with the Civic’s official 74.2mpg average mpg rating surpassed by more than 25 per cent. The rules of the record attempt
  • EU parliament passes new car CO2 legislation 23 Dec 2008 (News)
    new car CO2 emissions have fallen from nearly 190g/km in 1997 to 158.6g/km in 2008 – a fall of 16.4%. 5. There is a direct link between CO2 emissions and fuel consumption: CO2 emissions (g/km) 100 MPG – Petrol (approx) 67.3 MPG - Diesel (approx) 74.3
  • Supermarkets cut petrol prices by two pence-per-litre 21 Aug 2015 (News)
    for motorists than the last. The cost of filling up an average family petrol car is now around £8 less than it was last summer, and around £12 less for a diesel car. Fuel is a major expense for millions of families in the UK, and these latest cuts are certainly helping to ease that burden.”
  • Government to introduce E10 fuel to combat rise in CO2 emission levels 4 Mar 2020 (News)
    All standard petrol sold in the UK from 2021 will contain 10 per cent bioethanol, if a new Government consultation  is given the greenlight. The new E10 fuel will replace the existing E5 grade petrol, which contains up
  • Perhaps we're not ready to move back to petrol? 12 May 2014 (News)
    damaged every time you fill-up.  The average fuel consumption of the Qashqai in give-and-take driving was 35mpg. I’d expect 50mpg or more from a diesel – something that’s backed up by the Renault Captur 1.5dCi I’m currently driving
  • Geneva Motor Show: BMW X3 facelift unveiled 5 Mar 2014 (News)
    drive as standard. The mid-range xDrive20d also gets the new 2.0 diesel engine, but with 190PS and 400Nm of torque, while CO2 emissions are 138g/km and fuel consumption is 52mpg. The xDrive30d is powered by BMW's 3.0-litre, six-cylinder turbo-diesel with 258PS. It can accelerate from 0-62mph
  • New Mazda 6 Skyactiv Looking Good on P11Ds. 13 Nov 2012 (News)
    . The all-new Mazda6 range goes on sale in January in Saloon and Tourer body styles with company car drivers having a choice of two diesel and two petrol engines and six trim levels (SE, SE-Nav, SE-L, SE-L Nav, Sport and Sport Nav). The diesel engines are the 2.2-litre SKYACTIV-D 150ps and 175ps
  • Jeep announces new sportier Grand Cherokee 19 Oct 2012 (News)
    The Jeep Grand Cherokee range has gained a new, more sportily styled model called the S-Line. It boasts muscular styling like that of the high-performance V8 powered SRT but with a more frugal diesel engine. It’s priced at £44,595
  • CAP Predicts Class Leading Residual Values for New Mazda 6 9 Nov 2012 (News)
    CAP Monitor predicts residual values for the new Mazda 6 comfortably ahead of those for other similarly sized cars. Residual value predictions for the Mazda6 petrol-engined Saloon range average 31.8 percent, the petrol-engined Tourer 33 percent, the diesel-engined Saloon
  • Toyota Verso to be powered by BMW diesel engine 16 Dec 2013 (News)
    The Toyota Verso will be available with a BMW-sourced 1.6-litre diesel from 2014. There’s no information on prices as yet, but order books open in February and UK deliveries will start in March. The engine is the first to emerge from
  • Suzuki SX4 S-Cross to start at £14,999 17 Jul 2013 (News)
    Suzuki has announced pricing details for its new SX4 S-Cross crossover. Four equipment grades will be offered with prices starting at £14,999 for the entry level SZ3, rising to £23,549 for the top-spec 1.6 DDiS SZ5 diesel
  • Special edition Fiat takes inspiration from jeans 23 Oct 2008 (News)
    People looking for car buying advice may be interested to hear Fiat has teamed up with the fashion label Diesel to produce a limited edition 500. The car is based on the Sport model and is available in either metallic green
  • Renault launches 115g/km Eco2 diesel in an Scenic 19 May 2011 (News)
    manufacturer with a corporate average that exceeds 130g/km. By 2013 Renault confidently expects its average to be down to 120g/km. Partly through its Fluence, Kangoo, Zoe and Twizy electric cars and vans. And partly through its new turbo diesel dCi and turbo petrol TCe engines. This new 1.6 chain cam
  • Skoda launches Yeti Urban limited edition 28 Mar 2012 (News)
    black, candy white, metallic silver and metallic grey. Engines offered are the 105PS 1.2-litre TSI petrol and the 110PS 2.0-litre TDI diesel, which have respective fuel economy figures of 44.1mpg and 52.3mpg. Prices start at £16,900 for the diesel and £18,330 for the diesel
  • New 1.6 and 2.0 Litre PSA/Ford Diesels 19 Feb 2003 (News)
    customer demand in four priority areas: fuel economy, clean combustion, low running noise and outstanding performance. The engines required an aggregate investment of nearly 1 billion. Production capacity will ultimately exceed 1,600,000 engines a year, providing most of the diesel powerplants
  • The great British emissions scandal: UK motorists exceed ‘official’ emission limits by 10 million tonnes a year 16 Feb 2016 (News)
    to predict how much fuel their car will use As a result motorists are finding it increasingly difficult to predict how much fuel their car will use, with the UK’s average shortfall now accounting for 2,404 million litres of unleaded and 1,751 million litres of diesel annually
 

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