diesel cars??

R1Geezer | 14:29 Wed 02nd Apr 2008 | Motoring

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I keep hearing "modern diesels are quiet and perform as well as a petrol car". Bowlocks! I can hear any diesel in the next bleedin street they sound like a 10 ton truck! Performance, don't get me started 0-60?? I can turn over the bl00dya calendar they're so slow. The day I cannot tell a diesel is a diesel by listening to it then I'll start to believe. They sound like an old moggy with the tappits donald ducked! rant over! who's got a diesel then? and why are there no diesel motorbikes?

has he had my eyes out

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Rtaxron

Mine doesnt, it sounds purrrrrrrfectttt.

Are you talking about the present or the 40s?

kujawski

there are diesel motorbikes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_motorcycle

or

http://www.dieselbike.net/

tubeway

My last car was diesel - my new car is diesel and my next one will be too. I know they dont sound like a petrol, but they are reliable and quick enough. They are a lot better than they used to be - most Common Rail diesels are quick and responsive.
I like them so I have them and I do not care what you think about them either.

R1Geezer

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well clearly you do care, why comment at all?

logic

My wife and myself have been using diesel cars for 12 years now,and i certainly would not change back to petrol, unless there was a huge price incentive,
Don't know what you have tried in diesel vehicles, but most are perfectly acceptable nowadays, unless of course you are a boy racer,

tubeway

I answered because you asked for my opinion. As to caring - as I do not know you, I really do not care what your opinion of anything is. If you did not want to know what people think - then why ask the question?

theonlyone

We have a diesel car ...reliable ..not noisy
cheap to run...and the road fund tax is �35
per year ...well pleased .. have had diesels
for years but this is the best so far ...
it not a boy racers car ...

jg96

I drive a Focus TDCI Estate 1.6 ( company car) when it goes in for service they usually lend me a Focus 1.6 petrol would much rather drive my diesel maybe a bit noisier but I can make it shift OK.

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