Fiesta TDCi. Knowledge Me Up

[HH-R]

I drive a 1.2 8v petrol 12k miles a year and its OK to be honest, up to 40 MPH it will match or beat most average road cars for acceleration. 50-70 is a bit glacial but usually coming onto dual carriageways from traffic light controlled roundabouts, everyone fannies on in the inside lane for so long taking their handbrake off, finding a gear and even realising that the lights have changed that I can go straight into the outside line, go past them changing up at about 3/3.5k RPM and then slotting in at the front of the queue, they can then get past me if they like but I'm never really holding anyone up. Averages about 45/46 to the gallon with mostly dual carriageway but some (proper) city centre driving (i.e nose to tail traffic, stopping every two seconds for lights).

 

I've not found the narrow power band thing on diseasels but I tend not to rev high on a regular basis anyway and I've only driven a handful of them. The fancy high pressure injection systems and low CC/high output + turbo are worrying... I'd be willing to bet they end up just as unreliable as diesels.

[willswitchengage]

Yaris 1.4TD? The engine is a bit more old school is design than the Ford/PSA lumps but you get a higher quality vehicle and the same fuel economy. Fairly rare though and expensive, like Polo diesels. Still, there's a reason why the Ford is cheaper...

 

Stick away from Corsa 1.3 CDTis, we have them as work vans and they're a behemoth a problems

[Pillock]

I'll echo Albert's sentiments.

 

My 1.6tcdi Fuccus was main dealer serviced on the dot every time. It could not have wanted for anything. It still shat its DPF expensively at 100k, not just needing a service but actually blowing pipes apart with the back pressure.

 

We had a fleet of Focii at work with the same engine. I knew a dozen people with them, and four of them needed turbos despite again, rigorous main dealer fleet servicing. That's a 33% failure rate with a 2k bill, and we had them for 3 years or 90k (whichever came first) so none of them were exactly worn out.