Buying a Porsche Macan - petrol or diesel?

I've order a Porsche Macan and need to spec it soon. All reviews seem to go with the diesel version. However, I will only cover about 8000 miles a year and am drawn to the 2.0 petrol version which costs about £2000 less. I plan to keep it for a couple of years and residuals for current two-year old cars suggest a £2000 difference in petrol/diesel values. There's nothing to choose between the performance figures but of course the diesel is more economical to run. What do you think?

Asked on 30 November 2016 by SRN, Herts

Answered by Honest John
Not sure that a 3.0 V6 diesel will be cheaper to run than a 2.0 4-cylinder TSI. Just, for me, a Macan needs to be a V6 petrol, not an Audi Q5 2.0TSI pretending to be a Porsche: www.honestjohn.co.uk/road-tests/porsche/porsche-ma.../
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