The gap is growing.

[STEMO]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1590453/Fuel-shortage-petrol-England-Just-Stop-Oil-protest-block-supply-latest

[henryd]

I wouldn't mind a Volvo V70 T6, but I was crunching some numbers the other day and I reckon it would cost 10p a mile more to run than my current V70 D5, plus the addition VED. 

I've just bought a mk3 V70 2.0 diesel, been re-mapped and goes well but brilliant on fuel here locally

[Marks DTM Calib]

Currently making full use of overnights for testing.

L462 Petrol S6 for the weekend, L494 Petrol V8 tonight, need to find another needing miles for tomorrow

[Sir Tigger KC]

Currently making full use of overnights for testing.

Discovery 5 Petrol S6 for the weekend, MK2 Range Rover Sport Petrol V8 tonight, need to find another needing miles for tomorrow

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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Omega - 24mpg
Boxster - 28mpg
Pierre - 60mpg.

Diesel still makes sense for me while Im still working, which I plan to do for another seven years or so if possible.

I once had a test drive of an early 2.5 litre Boxster. It sounded great and was a proper drivers car. I think later cars were bored out to 2.7/3.0/3.2.

Very basic though....no AC if memory serves.

Mines a 2.7 (220bhp). It has A/C, CD changer, and memory drivers seat for example,but there was a long options list, so depended what boxes were ticked.
They developed over the years, and the 3.2 grew to 3.4.
Newer ones are very expensive and dont even look much like a Boxster. I believe they also have 4 cylinder (turbo presumably ?) engines.
Mine has a lovely sound, especially at higher revs, has enough grunt to have fun, and handles superbly.

[Doctor Gollum]

The Alabama Mumsybus uses as much diesel as the S280 did petrol. Had I seen this coming I would have held out for the R500

I noticed when having a rummage around Crawley for diesel the other morning, that Tescos claimed to only have Momentum unleaded. What's to stop them filling the Momentum tank with E10 and charging extra for it over and above the already inflated base price?

The question is what happens when Russia implodes? Will the oligarchs go back to running their businesses or will China quietly step in and syphon the fuel away?

Spending £20k+ on a vehicle with less than half the range and a charge time measured in shifts isn't the solution. I would probably revert to the train for commuting, but that isn't reliable and have an impending job change with a standby element, so public transport simply won't work. Said job change will also probably be Heathrow based, so public transport becomes the day before, so again not viable and as the cheapest ev is a Smart for two, that will not work.

For an EV to be viable it needs to have at least a 300 mile real world range in order to use it in the same manner as a combustion car.

[TheBoy]

Unless you live and work in London/Birmingham/Mancs etc, public transport is not viable.  It wasn't before Beeching had the right idea, so most definitely isn't now.

Most bus services outside of Londonium etc seem to be reducing, and aren't integrated into the rest of the public transport system.


For example, for me to get to Central London purely by public transport, its:
20 minute walk into town
Catch the bus, Tuesday at 11am
Run from Bicester bus station in order to catch the 12:56 choo choo, or walk, and wait nearly an hour for the 13:54
Hour* in to Marylebone
30mins on Bakerloo and Central to St Pauls etc.

So to get to London on a Tuesday, its 5hrs, assuming I want to arrive at 3:30pm.

The return journey is more fraught, as I have to wait for the following Tuesday for the bus.


Or I can take the car, about 2.5hrs, and cheaper even considering the congestion and ULEZ charges that the Mayor needs to pull down statues.


*Used to be around 40m, but every time there is a hint that HS2 might get scaled back further, HS2 Ltd's owners, Network Rail, who also run the timetables, extend it back out to an hour, in order to make the Birmingham to London routes 2 hours, rather than the 1hr15 it used to be.