Thanks for your feedback, Avant. The mileage is a question I am wrestling with. My office is a 35 mile commute away, so a round trip of 70 miles.

However I need to visit the office around 3 days a week, as I have the flexibility of working from home. For this reason a train season ticket is also not economical and day tickets are expensive.

However if i find that these cars also have endemic problems or that they have DMFs, I intend to go for a petrol model. The other option I am thinking of is also the Hyundai Elantra diesel.

Thanks swift88 for your response. I am beginning to think that I will play it safe and go for a corolla petrol. The potential problems with the diesels doesn't seem to be worth the hassle. Incidentally does your screen name indicate that you have a suzuli swift?

I did drive a swift when I was in India and I quite liked the car. However, I have a child now who will sometimes be sitting in the back seat. Hence I thought I should go for a bigger car with a larger boot, which would provide more safety in case of a rear end collission.

I know that this is just relative. But this is the reason I am thinking of a Corolla as a petrol car now.

Following on from what has been said, the Nissan 2.2dCi fitted to the Almera, like all the mid-2000s Renault-Nissan dCi engines is fundamentally flawed. I would not have one of these engines given to me.

Would tend to agree that if you *must* have a diesel, make it a VAG 1.9 PD. These are fitted variously into Mitsubishis, Seats, VWs and Skodas, one of which may be what you're after.

The Elantra's CRTD engine is, I believe a fairly old-school lump and I have not heard of any significant issues with it. But I'd say it's relatively unproven, and I'd not be 100% sure it's free from faults; the Elantra itself is a very solid car but most of them sold in the US and Aus where petrols dominate.