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Originally Posted by .FoMoCo.
But with premium fuel costing the same as diesel, the argument stands, does it not?
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Hmmm, petrol is just starting down the road of Direct Injection and turbocharging,
and at the moment, we have 530,000 petrol cars a year sold versus 45,000 diesels.
So there's a great opportunity to catch a much greater volume of vehicles with "Ecoboost"
than say diesel oriented buyers ... BUT, if fuel prices begin to spike, we may well see both
Ecoboost and diesel cars take off and naturally aspirated petrol engines become museum pieces.
It depends on demand, that burning desire from the buyer to get more fuel economy BUT if the petrol variant is
already pretty fuel efficient, I think the diesel has much less chance of making an impact with buyers wanting savings.
The difference going from 12.5 l/100 km petrol to say 8.2 l/100 km diesel has far more impact
than an 8.2 l/100 km petrol to say a 5.5 l/100 km diesel. Fuel savings are much greater in the latter.