opinon about a diesel Corolla

Hello,

With the gas prices 2.2$ / liter here in Turkey, I want to get rid of my
gas guzzling Focus wagon and get something with a diesel engine. I was
looking at Toyota's web page and saw that the Corolla is available with a
diesel engine (D4-D engine).. This is the first time that Toyota cars are
available with diesel engine here therefore no one knows anything about
their reliablity. It is a 1.4 liter engine with 90 bhp and quite slow..but
great on gas and its price is within my price range ($US 25K MSRP , damn
taxes!). How is this Toyota engine? as reliable as the gas engine? costly to
maintain? dengerous to drive because they are like snails?

Thank you very much.

Ahmet

Turkey

In article <4344e636_2@x-privat.org>, [email]dondragon38@hotmail.com[/email] says...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> With the gas prices 2.2$ / liter here in Turkey, I want to get rid of my
> gas guzzling Focus wagon and get something with a diesel engine. I was
> looking at Toyota's web page and saw that the Corolla is available with a
> diesel engine (D4-D engine).. This is the first time that Toyota cars are
> available with diesel engine here therefore no one knows anything about
> their reliablity. It is a 1.4 liter engine with 90 bhp and quite slow..but
> great on gas and its price is within my price range ($US 25K MSRP , damn
> taxes!). How is this Toyota engine? as reliable as the gas engine? costly to
> maintain? dengerous to drive because they are like snails?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Ahmet
>
> Turkey
>
>
>[/color]
Hey Ahmet, thought you were a GM guy.
not using otogas/LPG/Propane then? Or is that no longer any cheaper?
--
Carl Robson
Car PC Build starts again. [url]http://smallr.com/rz[/url]
Homepage: [url]http://www.bouncing-czechs.com[/url]

>[color=blue]
> Hey Ahmet, thought you were a GM guy.
> not using otogas/LPG/Propane then? Or is that no longer any cheaper?[/color]

I am also a GM guy... my other (wife's) car is an Opel Corsa 1.2 liter.. I
love to drive a Chevy Monte Carlo with new generation V8 but the gas prices
don't let me do it man...Can you freaking believe that more than %75 of what
we pay for 1 liter of gas goes to the government as taxes!

Otogas/propane is half the price of the gas but the conversion for some car
is not possible/safe.. Also, property tax on those cars go up whenever the
government needs extra money to blow out on some unnecessary spending...
That's why, I am not too keen to convert my Focus to LPG.

ahmet

In article <434602f5$0$49011$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, dondragon38
@hotmail.com says...[color=blue]
> I am also a GM guy... my other (wife's) car is an Opel Corsa 1.2 liter.. I
> love to drive a Chevy Monte Carlo with new generation V8 but the gas prices
> don't let me do it man...Can you freaking believe that more than %75 of what
> we pay for 1 liter of gas goes to the government as taxes!
>
>[/color]
I'm in the UK, I can believe it.
The biggest difference is, petrol/gas is about twice what it is in
Turkey, but the average wage is about 4-6 times as much at least I
reckon (especially if you include the very low waiters/hotel staff pay).
--
Carl Robson
Car PC Build starts again. [url]http://smallr.com/rz[/url]
Homepage: [url]http://www.bouncing-czechs.com[/url]

"NeedforSwede2" <carl.robson@bouncing-czechs.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1db039faa4cad11c98b472@news.individual.net...[color=blue]
> In article <434602f5$0$49011$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, dondragon38
> @hotmail.com says...[color=green]
>> I am also a GM guy... my other (wife's) car is an Opel Corsa 1.2 liter..
>> I
>> love to drive a Chevy Monte Carlo with new generation V8 but the gas
>> prices
>> don't let me do it man...Can you freaking believe that more than %75 of
>> what
>> we pay for 1 liter of gas goes to the government as taxes!
>>
>>[/color]
> I'm in the UK, I can believe it.
> The biggest difference is, petrol/gas is about twice what it is in
> Turkey, but the average wage is about 4-6 times as much at least I
> reckon (especially if you include the very low waiters/hotel staff pay).
> --
> Carl Robson[/color]


Just out of curiosity Carl, what is the pump price per liter (I can do the
conversions) you pay in Britain these days?
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- Philip