by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 03/31/2017 at 16:24
by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 03/31/2017 at 16:24
Tags: Diesel
; Statistics
STARS: 0
We’ve heard a lot about diesel and matters relating thereto so I’ve researched sales of a car commonly sold as a diesel in Ireland.
The BMW 5 series.
For the first two months of this year they went as follows:
Petrol 1.33%
Diesel 98.67%.
Nobody could be persuaded to buy a hybrid.
What surprised me was the 1.3%, I’d have expected 0%.
Have a 520d. No, I don’t know if it’s the previous or the current one. Nobody knows.
"Svend" (svend)
03/31/2017 at 17:44, STARS: 0
I’m surprised how car companies are still pushing diesels and more so how people are buying them as there is so much uncertainty about what is going to happen from governments and local authorities such as Paris banning certain classifications of diesel such as Euro5, etc... soon.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/31/2017 at 18:08, STARS: 1
Not so much a case of companies pushing them as much as government encouragement of low CO2 figures which inevitably favours diesels. BMW and everyone else will sell you any kind of car you like.
"Svend" (svend)
03/31/2017 at 18:12, STARS: 0
In the U.K. the vast majority of Land Rovers new are diesel, VW only sell the Passat as a diesel.
But yeah I guess.
I suppose it’s more, why people are buying diesel with so much concern about how diesel is looking in Europe.