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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #15 on: 15 February 2013, 17:57:27 »

Both the 2.2 & 2.6 were underpowered for towing.

The 2.6 only marginaly better, but a lot thirstier.

Must admit I found my 2.5 elite a bit of a struggle towing,needed a lot of revs to do anything meaningful ,the 3.0 signum I have now would pull it in half :y

Yup, down to about 7 mpg on hills.
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« Reply #16 on: 15 February 2013, 18:00:07 »

Both the 2.2 & 2.6 were underpowered for towing.

The 2.6 only marginaly better, but a lot thirstier.

Must admit I found my 2.5 elite a bit of a struggle towing,needed a lot of revs to do anything meaningful ,the 3.0 signum I have now would pull it in half :y

Yup, down to about 7 mpg on hills.

I averaged 16mpg over a 200 mile trip with it once towing t"van,my V8 Disco does better although it is manual and doesn't realise the van is behind it :D
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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #17 on: 15 February 2013, 18:03:16 »

Both the 2.2 & 2.6 were underpowered for towing.

The 2.6 only marginaly better, but a lot thirstier.

Must admit I found my 2.5 elite a bit of a struggle towing,needed a lot of revs to do anything meaningful ,the 3.0 signum I have now would pull it in half :y

Yup, down to about 7 mpg on hills.

I averaged 16mpg over a 200 mile trip with it once towing t"van,my V8 Disco does better although it is manual and doesn't realise the van is behind it :D

I managed about 18 mpg on a trip to France last year, driving very, very steady :(
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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #18 on: 15 February 2013, 18:10:24 »

Both the 2.2 & 2.6 were underpowered for towing.

The 2.6 only marginaly better, but a lot thirstier.

Must admit I found my 2.5 elite a bit of a struggle towing,needed a lot of revs to do anything meaningful ,the 3.0 signum I have now would pull it in half :y

Yup, down to about 7 mpg on hills.

I averaged 16mpg over a 200 mile trip with it once towing t"van,my V8 Disco does better although it is manual and doesn't realise the van is behind it :D

I managed about 18 mpg on a trip to France last year, driving very, very steady :(

I think mine being an Elite estate didn't help matters much,about the heaviest version before hitch up :-X
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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #19 on: 15 February 2013, 18:36:16 »

  the other downside with a new diesel nowdays is that you need to be covering a minimum of 15k miles a year to offset the price differance because of the price of fuel as well.
saw diesel 11p a litre more than petrol at one garage today
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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #20 on: 15 February 2013, 19:24:44 »

I've never had a diesel, then I considered having a diesel, now I've decided I'll never have a diesel.  ;D
I hardly ever travel further than two miles.  :-[
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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #21 on: 15 February 2013, 19:25:47 »

Which means, of course, that I could have a really thirsty petrol. ::)
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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #22 on: 15 February 2013, 23:44:47 »

It was because the Estima was a diesel that was a big factor in us getting her 10 years ago. With 4 teenage kids between us we needed a bigger car than the old Sierra we had and we'd hired an Estima for a holiday and liked it so much that we set about importing one (the UK Previa version was petrol only). On long journeys she was quite economical but more recently she's only been doing fairly short runs and as people have said, that isnt economical, even for an older diesel. In fact its even cheaper to use the Omega (a 2.5v6 petrol) than the 2.2 turbo diesel in the EStima for my work journey and thats a daily 50mile round trip with very little "urban" driving. I guess that if I currently put in about £55 a week in the omega in petrol then the 2.0 Cdi astra should be around £40 a week in diesel?
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Re: New astra sports tourer
« Reply #23 on: 16 February 2013, 02:49:39 »

Using your figures, that's 40 litres of petrol against 27litres of diesel, giving a saving of £15 per week, or £780 per year. The question you need to consider is whether the new Astra will cost you less than £780 per year :-\

I suspect the answer is 'No', so better of sticking to the petrol Omega :y
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