An Audi A2 diesel does that, with four doors, so does the VW lupo 1.2 diesel.
Perhaps they need to re-brand diesel in the USA? They could call it "heavy-oil, a real MAN's fuel" !
Perhaps they need to re-brand diesel in the USA? They could call it "heavy-oil, a real MAN's fuel" !
To be fair, around the rural areas, a lot of farmer's have diesel tanks and buy that in bulk.
Great highway cruiser too - nice to only be turning ~2200 RPM at 70, and getting 45 mpg while doing it.
It's a little less of an economy car than the TDI, but .. it handles the Autobahn quite nicely. I came from an Audi A3 and couldn't complain about the overall quality. Going back to DE soon I might go for exactly the same thing again.
I'd love to have had the option of getting a GTD though...but it's kind of insane how poorly the Golf sells here... only sell about 15k of them a year, in the whole US. As of right now about 60% of those are TDIs.
NB: That's not counting GTI or Golf R sales...in the US VW treats those as separate models, not trim levels.
I was going to buy a diesel for my next vehicle, but I cannot find anything outside of Volkswagen and I am not buying one of those[1]. I do believe the other side of the problem is that their are not many diesels to buy.
[1] poor build quality (door handles broke off) and obscene repair prices ($300 to change headlight - not user serviceable) on my friends VW bug. It had worse build quality than my 2008 Chevy Cavalier and that's saying something.
My 2008 Cavalier was a POS. The 1994 one we had was amazing, that's why I bought the 2008 model. The dealer service center was awful[1], but I took it to another dealer ship. They were amazing and fixed everything. Car made it to 268,000 miles before I gave it to my uncle. Only problem is that they got closed by GM and the bad dealership stayed.
[1] bring car in for 8:00AM appointment for 4th recall. Told it needed to be there by 7:00AM. Got it there at 6:35AM. Told it would be done at noon. Finally was allowed to pick it up at 11:45PM. GM called for a followup and I told them the whole story. Dealer called me the next day and was very upset that I told GM the truth.
They stopped making the Cavalier in 2005. How'd you get a 2008 model?
My local Lexus dealership (on the other coast) actually complained to Toyota for me when I asked them about the repairs.
What happened with the dealer after you told GM the truth?
When GM shutdown a chunk of their dealerships they got to stay open, but the one with a much better service department closed. One had connections, one didn't.
Running on gasoline is significant because diesel has a higher energy density per volume.
You shouldn't compare petrol MPG vs diesel MPG.