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JDM-20L · #1 02-20-2011, 07:34 PM

Actually he's an existing diesel enthusiast funny enough, He drives freight locomotives for Pacific National and also a train buff (that is an understatement)

In saying that.. I think it has more or less steered him towards a diesel BMW next time round! I keep questioning his desire to waste his hard earned on a V8 Statesman or Calais that he keeps talking about! God knows why he wants to put himself down that path again?

Fraser · #2 02-21-2011, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JDM-20L

In saying that.. I think it has more or less steered him towards a diesel BMW next time round! I keep questioning his desire to waste his hard earned on a V8 Statesman or Calais that he keeps talking about! God knows why he wants to put himself down that path again?

Can't see the value in a new Calais or Caprice myself (I think the Statesman is gone now) but these things are pretty good shopping second hand. Just wait until the price of petrol spikes up and watch the huge number of them that come on to the second-hand market at bargain-basement prices.

JDM-20L · #3 02-21-2011, 10:39 PM

He has a V8 in the garage too... lol

I don't understand his desire to be double dipping on V8 fuel bills.

I love those Cayenne's and it was on the option list before I decided on the X5 3.0D but it's senseless for me to be driving one around town and towing my other cars about would incur a hefty fuel bill and only reasonable performance gains in comparison, put simply the X5 was pretty hard to pass up when compared with anything else on the market!

Must get pics up too I guess?

Fraser · #4 02-21-2011, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by JDM-20L

He has a V8 in the garage too... lol

I don't understand his desire to be double dipping on V8 fuel bills.

I love those Cayenne's and it was on the option list before I decided on the X5 3.0D but it's senseless for me to be driving one around town and towing my other cars about would incur a hefty fuel bill and only reasonable performance gains in comparison, put simply the X5 was pretty hard to pass up when compared with anything else on the market!

Must get pics up too I guess?

Pretty hard to go past the 3.0d I reckon. V8 torque with 4-cylinder fuel-economy. It's a win-win situation. I also have a old (1990) 3.9-litre V8 Range Rover that uses nearly twice as much fuel as the 3.0d, even though I nurse it along and fang the X5.