Diesels have some advantages. 850km on a tank around town, and 1300km intercity is pretty groovy.

Also, towing a 30 ft caravan sized race car transport trailer I only use 15L/100km. This was on country roads and not highway.

Moving to a diesel SAV has been a bit of a change for me forced by the need to tow a Formula 3 car around the east coast of Australia. I normally drive pretty quick turbo cars and surprisingly found the X5 with sports pack suspension enough of a drivers car to still get my jollies on the road.

Chris.