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Next car will be a Bora but I need good economy because the company I work for are tight with the expenses.Has any body got actual experience of real world MPG of a 1600 petrol.A TDi would be nice but it is just the thought of the govt' ripping us off so much with the silly price of diesel.
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Go for the TDi, you have to try hard to get any less than 50mpg( Mid to late fifties on a run).
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Just jumped into a 1.6 petrol Golf hire car while my diesel car is getting serviced and its like the stone age.
The Golf feels a bit lighter around town, but anywhere else it is hard work and you have to hang on to every gear to feel the same sense of momentum as a diesel
The economy is also a bonus with a diesel
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I have a 1.6 Bora SE with the 100PS petrol engine, which came up out of the blue about three years ago at a price that was just too tempting to miss out on (pal runs a used car business from his home since selling his retail outlet and only deals with top notch vehicles).
It's a heavy car but pulls well even in fifth from about 20mph - average fuel consumption works out at 40.9mph on a run and, around town, about 32-34mpg.
But I would still have preferred a diesel version...:-)
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The Vento is too heavy for the 1.6 IMO. Better as a 2.0 petrol. Although I would have the TDi anyday.
Shame it looks so dire but then that's why it's cheaper.
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We have a 1999 1.6 petrol Bora and the previous car was a year 2000 Seat Toledo (same car basically) with a 110 TDI engine. The TDI flew when it was running properly but I hated it - noisy and unrefined but good mpg obviously. With our current Bora, the engines sounds like a sewing machine and we get about 32 round town, 40 on a run. Its not a car for motorway blasts or a car with loads of power but for a nice simple everyday car that gives no hassle - its great! For a 1.6 though, its really nippy.The Boras got 45k on clock and the TDI had 95k. I know diesels are great, fast, economical but I love the fact that the petrol is whisper quiet. Unless I can afford a newish low mileage diesel, I'm not going bak to them.
btw the Bora compared to the Golf gives a far superior ride...........
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The Vento is too heavy for the 1.6 IMO. Better as a 2.0 petrol. Although I would have the TDi anyday. Shame it looks so dire but then that's why it's cheaper.>>
The Vento is the model before the Bora; it replaced the Jetta big bumper model from 1992 to the late 1990s.
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