92DakotaHD wrote: My wife's gets about 40 with mixed driving, 45+ all highway. Some diesels go together better than others and you'll find a few guys getting 60+ mpg out of the early 2000s VWs. Check out Fred's TDI club for more info.
Interesting, I have been getting 26 city and 31 to 33 highway with my Jetta gasser 2.5 6 speed auto. Looks like the government says it gets less. With the cost of diesel, maintenance, and initial cost I don't see an advantage. When I was looking at them the asking price for the TDI's were 4k+ more.
92DakotaHD wrote: My wife's gets about 40 with mixed driving, 45+ all highway. Some diesels go together better than others and you'll find a few guys getting 60+ mpg out of the early 2000s VWs. Check out Fred's TDI club for more info.
Interesting, I have been getting 26 city and 31 to 33 highway with my Jetta gasser 2.5 6 speed auto. Looks like the government says it gets less. With the cost of diesel, maintenance, and initial cost I don't see an advantage. When I was looking at them the asking price for the TDI's were 4k+ more.
I agree, I wouldn’t own diesel except for towing now days. Not worth it. The days of diesel being cheaper are long gone. The higher the price of a barrel of oil the more the spread between the price gas and diesel is.
92DakotaHD wrote: My wife's gets about 40 with mixed driving, 45+ all highway. Some diesels go together better than others and you'll find a few guys getting 60+ mpg out of the early 2000s VWs. Check out Fred's TDI club for more info.
Interesting, I have been getting 26 city and 31 to 33 highway with my Jetta gasser 2.5 6 speed auto. Looks like the government says it gets less. With the cost of diesel, maintenance, and initial cost I don't see an advantage. When I was looking at them the asking price for the TDI's were 4k+ more.
I realize it's not tow related, but the diesel milage looks like a big advantage over the gasser in this situation, even figuring in diesel costs 20% more (from numbers I've noticed here in the Atlanta area). Bump your 25 by 20% and you are at 30 MPG, the diesel is getting 40. 10MPG is nothing to sneeze at. But finding a diesel for sale, now that is the trick.
92DakotaHD wrote: My wife's gets about 40 with mixed driving, 45+ all highway. Some diesels go together better than others and you'll find a few guys getting 60+ mpg out of the early 2000s VWs. Check out Fred's TDI club for more info.
Interesting, I have been getting 26 city and 31 to 33 highway with my Jetta gasser 2.5 6 speed auto. Looks like the government says it gets less. With the cost of diesel, maintenance, and initial cost I don't see an advantage. When I was looking at them the asking price for the TDI's were 4k+ more.
If you do not see a 10mpg as an advantage we cannot help you. Not saying your mileage is bad, just that you are missing a very clear advantage. The poster with the wife who drives the diesel is getting 14mpg better than your city mpg on the gasser in mixed driving. This isn't like a diesel pickup getting a few more mpg than its gas counterpart. 10mpg is substantial. Naturally it also depends on your areas gas prices too as to how much you'd save. Here it is about $.70 a gallon difference. Passenger car diesles ar enot truck diesels. They use more oil but not like a truck diesel vs a truck gasser. The initial cost also looks less. You also need to factor in logevity. A well maintained diesel seems to outlast the body around it.
92DakotaHD wrote: My wife's gets about 40 with mixed driving, 45+ all highway. Some diesels go together better than others and you'll find a few guys getting 60+ mpg out of the early 2000s VWs. Check out Fred's TDI club for more info.
Interesting, I have been getting 26 city and 31 to 33 highway with my Jetta gasser 2.5 6 speed auto. Looks like the government says it gets less. With the cost of diesel, maintenance, and initial cost I don't see an advantage. When I was looking at them the asking price for the TDI's were 4k+ more.
I agree, I wouldn’t own diesel except for towing now days. Not worth it. The days of diesel being cheaper are long gone. The higher the price of a barrel of oil the more the spread between the price gas and diesel is.
Funny, the price of diesel here fluctuates between the price regular and the price of premium. Ten miles south of me in WA diesel runs about 60 cents a gallon more than regular. I don't think the spread has much to do with the price of oil. Other factors are in play.
As far as the higher upfront cost of the diesel option goes according to Black Book you get more than that on resale for most diesels.
With manual transmission my 04 TDI is Transport Canada rated at 46 city 61 highway per Imperial gallon. I don't think that is far off as I average around 50+ MPG in a real world of mixed rural and town driving. As it is also a fun little car do drive, I don't baby it and could probably do a lot better if I tried.
The new TDI is rated at 43 city 54 highway per IMP gallon.
If true, that's not bad for a bigger car and has 40% more HP and 32% more torque than my 04.
A US gallon is 20% smaller than an Imperial gallon
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Aha! That must be the confusion! I was hearing 60 mpg but that must have been IMPERIAL gallons, not US gallons! So, 80% of 60mpg is 48 mpg. We're still missing 8 mpg somewhere, but it is closer at least.
92DakotaHD wrote: My wife's gets about 40 with mixed driving, 45+ all highway. Some diesels go together better than others and you'll find a few guys getting 60+ mpg out of the early 2000s VWs. Check out Fred's TDI club for more info.
Interesting, I have been getting 26 city and 31 to 33 highway with my Jetta gasser 2.5 6 speed auto. Looks like the government says it gets less. With the cost of diesel, maintenance, and initial cost I don't see an advantage. When I was looking at them the asking price for the TDI's were 4k+ more.
If you do not see a 10mpg as an advantage we cannot help you. Not saying your mileage is bad, just that you are missing a very clear advantage. The poster with the wife who drives the diesel is getting 14mpg better than your city mpg on the gasser in mixed driving. This isn't like a diesel pickup getting a few more mpg than its gas counterpart. 10mpg is substantial. Naturally it also depends on your areas gas prices too as to how much you'd save. Here it is about $.70 a gallon difference. Passenger car diesles ar enot truck diesels. They use more oil but not like a truck diesel vs a truck gasser. The initial cost also looks less. You also need to factor in logevity. A well maintained diesel seems to outlast the body around it.
I paid 10K for my 2005 gasser. I am sure I cannot find a 2005 TDI for under 15K. It costs me $10 for gas a day, for a 25% increase in mileage at $2.50 a day would take me 2000 days, not including the extra cost of diesel. What advantage are we talking about?
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