Comments on: Petrol or Diesel ? How to Decide When you Buy a Car

By: Dr Anil Dongre

Dr Anil Dongre — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:46:38 +0000

I’m a surgeon and my routine work in city by car is approx. 10 km per day. but I have choosen a diesel car ford fiesta.If you buy a Diesel you wont think about wallet while filling the car as Diesel is cheap and more miles you can travel and for going outside,i never think just take the car and move to any place. I’m happy that I have done right choice.I suggest to all the peoples that dont go on mathematics, just buy diesel cars as the prices for petrol are hiking so much.

By: ajayg

ajayg — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:12:32 +0000

For your usage Petrol is better.I am thinking for Swift Vxi. I did’nt do any Research for car mentioned by you

By: Dhana

Dhana — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:56:20 +0000

I planned to buy a car (Petrol).

But after today’s news.. Petrol price hiked by INR 3. Diesel app. Rs 45 whereas petrol Rs.70. Confused whether to go for petrol or diesel car….:|,

calculating Rahul’s maths, 8000 more than 1 lac.

Also, no confirmation that petrol price will be 70 for 5 years. I do agree that diesel price will also be increased. But the ACCELERATION of petrol price is very much higher than that of diesel price.

In future,, dont go for years , assume after one year the petrol price be INR 100/litre and that if diesel be INR 60/litre

REcalculating .. Makes a huge difference.

Confused a lotttttt,.

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My need:- max of 15 km per day then every 2 months will travel to my home town from chennai to cbe about 1000 km (up/down) My usage is about 1500 km/two months.

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Can any one suggest me a car. My options are Tata ev2 (which gives 25km/ltr) or Tata Vista or Hyundai i10 Magna 1.2 Kappa2 VTVT or Maruthi Ritz Vxi (Vdi) or Chevi Beat Petrol. Please do comment about the engine performance.

Then what about the engines… Kappa2 Engine with VTVT, K12 series and CRDi. which is a better one.

By: Sanjeev Yadav

Sanjeev Yadav — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:01:18 +0000

Dear Milan ( More Précised)

Really after reading all reviews and forums I agree with Milans realistic variable consideration which are missed by lot people. Your calc are absolutely right today 8000 Km a year.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:53:54 +0000

Im considering New Swift for a average monthly travel of 1000 km (both city and highways).Petrol mileage is around 12-13 and Diesel’s around 16-17.The Maruthi sales person suggests go for Diesel only if monthly usage is more than 3000 km as the maintenance charges and frequency is higher.Is that true.What will be the maintenance charges of the Swift Petrol/Diesel.Please suggest.

By: rahul

rahul — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:29:27 +0000

If your running is 1000 KMs a month ( i guess most of people who visits blogs are in this category

Petrol Cost (avg. milage of 14 KMPL) : 1000/14*67 = 4785 Rs.

Diesel Cost (avg Milage of 18 KMPL) + Maintainence cost ( 1 Rs/Km) : 1000/18*41+1000 = 3277 Rs.

Difference is 1508 Rs a month. so ROI is approx 5 Yrs if you have spent 1 Lac additional.

SO GO FOR PETROL : MORE PICK UP, COMFORT RIDE, LOW NOISE

By: milan

milan — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:22:09 +0000

hi guys,

I tried petrol and diesel variants for my needs, and after experiencing both variants for 4 years, i came to a conclusion that if your yearly running is less than 8000 kms, you should opt for petrol only. I calculated with variables including, diesel and petrol cars, price diff, fuel price diff, maintenance diff and resale value diff that diesel cars should only be bought if your yearly mileage is more than approx 8000 kms and more. comparison was done between a new gen crdi common rail diesel engine,and a new gen variable time fuel injected petrol engine.

By: Ameet

Ameet — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:44:42 +0000

Amol,

As per the initial estimation… go for it, the car is really very well built and it has equal performance of the petrol engine. I have a santro and drove it to the showroom of punto. When I had test drive of punto through it is a demo car which has already driven hard by so many testers… the engine was really giving good response. The test car was of 2009 model it means around 2 years old car and it performed really well. I would suggest go for it.

By: Amol

Amol — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:04:25 +0000

All the comments are good to decide which car to buy..Was just wondering for the use of 15000KM per year is it ok i go for Fiat Punto Disel??

Amol

By: Mondal

Mondal — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:06:00 +0000

In India about 25-30 percentage of people purchase cars just to maintain a status where uses of car is not frequent or everyday.In this case, you want to enjoy the driving for some particular day or during some special need. Here petrol car is better to purchase and probable you will not think about the wallet as you are not a regular user.If you have a daily need,I would rather suggest you to go for diesel car because it gives good fuel economy and saves money.