I was just woundering why Subaru dont release a diesel Impreza.

I personally don't like diesels but some weird people swear by them, I just swear at them http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif

Becuase it would ruin their reputation........

For cars with extravagant MPG.

Anyway how could you identify the piston slap with all that rattling going on?

Yikes!

A flat four diesel, how rough and growley would that sound!

It would scare young children!!

robski

The majority of subarus are sold in countries such as USA where diesels aren't a big seller so it isn't worth thier while developing a diesel for the european market .

You all laugh.

My Co car is a Golf, 115bhp 210ftlb torque at 1900 revs. There are some situations where the Golf is quicker than my Scoobs, around town etc you always have instant go on tap anywhere. Mt BIL has a 2.2 Accord and the golf will easily stay with it, in fact it has more overtaking speed. My trip computer tells me for the last 1500 miles i've averaged 48.6 mpg !
Don't get me wrong, the Scoobs is much better. If i've a long Motorway journey to do though, i'd take the Golf.

As EVO mag said recently - The day of the performance deisel is here.

Steve.

I had a Diesel 406 pug (2.0 HDI turbo), it went very well indeed once the turbo was spinning, but I really had to cane it (courtesy car http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif ) to get it to shift and I don't think the fuel economy was up to much (only had it for a week though, so a bit hard to tell).

Other than that I found that people kept jumping in the back when I stopped at traffic lights and asking me to take them places http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif

I remember back in the old days when I was still sane and drove an Audi, I got an A4 TDI as a courtesy car - I was really impressed with the thing - so much torque mad it really driveable. Problem was, just as I was starting to have fun, the 4500 rpm red line came up, and it was time to change gears. Ugh. Didn't like the thrum-thrum-thrum pulsing through the go-pedal either.

I've managed to convince my other half that a big-engined LPG car would be just as economical to run over all those motorway miles I travel http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif. Anyone got a big V8 lying about http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif?