wow - great response - thanks all.

Obviously all are poor economy (makes my current 3L Z4 look good!!), but maybe on ~10 MPG worse for the petrol. £10k pays for about 7 years of fuel, based on todays prices and 10k miles a year avg. Sounds like a no brainer. Am I missing something - is the diesel going to last longer? I'd have thought the supercharger as likely to go as the turbo in the diesel? When I had a test drive yesterday, my local dealer said they specifically refuse any second hand petrols which worried me a bit. Randal

If you are going to bank that £10k and only use it for fuel, then yes, you'll get 4 years of "free petrol", but who does that..you'll end up blowing it on a holiday or a new boys toy...and you'll still be visiting the petrol stn twice as regularly as the oil burner...for more performance yes... but for 99% of the time you'll be limited by the handling... and as said before, the TDV8 isn't a slouch.

Big petrols are becoming more and more un-wanted by dealers (any marque) my local BMW dealer salesman hide when one of their 4.5L V8's come in part ex... they're worthless... RRS gone
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hemingwayrandal wrote:

petrols around £10k less.

10k less

You will have to let me know where you are shopping!!!! 2008 Black Range Rover Sports HST, 4.2 Supercharged.

RAM Cobra, Aluminium body, 7 litres and +500 BHP - SOLD

07 TDV8's are high 20's to low 30's iirc

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2007-LAND-ROVER-...0708049628

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Range...27bc7924e5

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RANGE-ROVER-SPOR...1e659a9432 RRS gone
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Audi A6 Allroad Sport 270 3.0TDI

Given how fast the V8 diesel is anyway especially when tweaked I would definately go for that especially when taking the residual value into consideration and the high risk of fuel continuing to rise in price. MY2011 HSE Santorini/Ivory/Piano Black/Privacy Glass/TV .Sadly gone.
Audi A5 Sportback Black Edition 3.0 tdi quattro S Line

hemingwayrandal wrote:

I'm looking at buying a 2007 RRS, either TDV8 3.6 or 4.2 SC with about 40-50k on the clock. The question is which to go for? Diesels are about £35k, petrols around £10k less. That buys a HUGE amount of extra fuel even working on 10MPG difference between the two, plus the petrol must be more fun?

We'll be using it around wales, almost all country driving with the odd long trip thrown in. Not too worried about resale as the plan is to keep it long term. What do people think?

Thanks

ianh wrote:

hemingwayrandal wrote:

I'm looking at buying a 2007 RRS, either TDV8 3.6 or 4.2 SC with about 40-50k on the clock. The question is which to go for? Diesels are about £35k, petrols around £10k less. That buys a HUGE amount of extra fuel even working on 10MPG difference between the two, plus the petrol must be more fun?

We'll be using it around wales, almost all country driving with the odd long trip thrown in. Not too worried about resale as the plan is to keep it long term. What do people think?

Thanks

Why do you think you will have 10K to spend on fuel ? when you come to sell the petrol will still be worth a lot less than the diesel....

Just had a remap from Superchips (£410) for my 2.7 HSE,previously l got 16.5mpg pulling a twin axle caravan.I,ve just returned from a 900 mile trip and its now returning 21.5.On a trip from Scotland to Manchester last week it returned 30mpg on cruise set at 70(1or2 or 5or6 blasts up to 80ish) previously l would get 23ish.Result Happy as Larry.
Cheers Tommy
PS The moral is remap your S/C

Remaps for the SC does not get the same kind of power/torque returns as seen from the TD's RRS gone
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awd man wrote:

"10k is a HUGE amount of fuel"
"Not too worried about re-sale"
"Petrol must be more fun?"


Sounds like you've already made your mind up

Real money it's 460 miles on £110 worth V's 260 for the SC

Average person does 1300 miles a month? that's 3 fill up's for the TDV8 and 5 for the SC. so an extra £220 a month on fuel.

I picked up my 43000mile 2007 TDV8 on Friday and have spent the last few days enjoying the performance and generally playing around. It's averaging 21mpg - everytime I open the taps and listen to the V8 rumble I know it's costing me money but hey! I'm doing a run up to Scotland in a couple of weeks so will be interested to see what the mileage rate is for that. I'd hope to see several mpg improvement.

I too did the "S/C is cheaper to buy so the fuel costs are offset" thing but ended up going for the oil burner. I'm toying with a map job on it too. This should give a decent boost in performance (it already overtakes very well anyway) with possible fuel benefits too. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

We did the comparisson too. But, I was trying to justify it the other way - the diesel cost more, but would save on fuel costs. However, it would take a number of years to recover the cost difference on fuel, so we went with a S/C as the cost difference between a low mileage 56 plate S/C and an average mileage TDV8 07 plate was considerable (at the time approx £8k).

Yes, the S/C may be harder to sell when we come to that point, but that will be some time away and if something is priced right it will sell.

Hindsight suggests that perhaps a TDV6 would have been enough as I'm driving it pretty sensibly so never making use of the available power - trip currently showing 16.1mpg average from a mix of town and open road driving (I reset the trip after each fill up). I saw it nudge 22mpg once on a drive from London to Aberdeen with a roof box and bike on top at a steady 75mph...

We don't do big miles in it - it is pretty much a weekend car so the cost of fuel is not as noticeable.