tomorrow i pick up...

[J4MES]

..my new boring diesel... all being well...

[Fox]

Please tell me you didn't spend 4 grand on a 7 year old 110bhp diesel. Please.

[Howard]

Looks like a reasonable price to me. Audis are prestigious anyway and that = more moneys.

And the spinny turbine forced air intake type thingy makes it less boring

[Fox]

The spinning turbine forced air intake type thingy is an utter essential on a diesel, they are barely capable of independant movement without one

It's on a petrol, or a high powered diesel, where it makes things less boring

[Konan555]

They're not bad, just pray your don't suffer the legendary set of bent valves.

[davidstone28]

Fox's comments about his love of diesels made me chuckle

[Adam107]

mmmmm...German....probably your best bet, and audis are more expensive because, well, its an audi.

[5lab]

i picked up my 6 year old boring diesel car on weds, only cost me a grand too

off the boost its bloomin hopeless though..

[J4MES]

...didn't buy it - drove 2 1/2 hrs to see it, and it didn't run quite right for a red-i... ah well

[J4MES]

Please tell me you didn't spend 4 grand on a 7 year old 110bhp diesel. Please.

nope, but I will... and before you ask, no I haven't considered a mondeo...

[Fox]

Good, as non TDCi Mondeo diesels are rubbish.

[5lab]

no they're not! you ever driven one?

[Fox]

Yes. I am a huge diesel fan. I owned a Xantia TD.

I test drove a Mondeo 1.8TD.

I bought a Mondeo 2.0 16v

Fantastic car, horrible engine. Ok if you want to get from A to B, but it's noisy, unrefined, not very powerful, and slow.

[Howard]

no they're not! you ever driven one?

Fox is a bit like The Stig..He's known as The Mondeo Man. He's driven every Mondeo in existance. Even yours. If it's a Mondeo and it's Ford, by golly he's driven it.

[Konan555]

no they're not! you ever driven one?

They're OK if you run a taxi service, but anything out of town and the MPG returns just arn't worth suffering that lumpy old TD.

[dangel]

no they're not! you ever driven one?

Unless we're talking new-generation Ford then it's utter rubbish. In fact, the old TD mondeo has a repuation for being one of the worst cars known to mankind (with reliability to match). Until the new gen mondeo and focus Ford really didn't have any diesel worth mentioning, let alone worth buying, when compared to the VAG cars available.