How different is driving a petrol than a diesel?
My family has always had diesel manual cars. I did my driving test in a diesel and my first car is one too. Except for diesel, I have only recently driven 100% electric but never a petrol.
I have always been told petrols are shit for various reasons and to avoid them. How much true is it?
I noticed petrols are much cheaper to buy and I'm tempted to get one, but that's an equivalent of coming out as a gay in my field of friends...
How different is driving a petrol than a diesel?
Joseph Howard
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Jordan Perry
Reasonably modern cars are pretty similar, at least in the US. I don't know if life might suck in a 0.5L European gas engine, but I've driven 1.5Ls before and they were just fine. They rev higher and don't have quite the same grunt down low.
Most cars burn gas in the US, and we seem to enjoy them quite a lot, so unless we're using magic pixie dust and you aren't I don't see what the problem should be.
Christian White
petrols need less air to make the same amount of power as a diesel, so naturally aspirated diesels are always going to be more powerful than a naturally aspirated diesel equivalent. Petrols aren't that much more expensive to fuel and they're less noisy. (petrol is like coming out as gay) has it ever occured to you that your friends might be the gay ones?
Aiden Richardson
>so naturally aspirated diesels are always going to be more powerful than a naturally aspirated diesel equivalent
naturally aspirated petrol always more powerful than NA diesel equivalent ***
Gabriel Wilson
From my experience manual petrol cars are a bit easier to stall as they have less torque especially on low RPMs compared to diesel with similar power, but you'll get used to it quickly.
Noah Turner
Diesels tend to be better for bigger vehicles but for cars petrol is much better. Higher revs, much better throttle response and a lot smoother.
Diesels pull more up to about 2500rpm but offer very little beyond that, whereas in a petrol car you're only really starting to get into the powerband at 2500rpm.
Luke Cook
The smartest thing to do is comparing the same cars with the two different engines being the approximate same size.
If we do that, then the "general" differences are
>diesel is more fuel efficient when at peak operating temperature
This is due to the nature of the diesels high pressure and lower RPM
>diesel is slower
Diesels produce less horsepower, rev slower and does not attain as high RPMs as petrol
>diesel is stronger
They've got more torque and are more suited for hauling heavy stuff
>petrol warms up quicker
A modern diesel engine is very heat-loss effective compared to petrol, and thus warms up slower
>petrol starts easier
Because a petrol does not need a glow plug system, has lower cylinder pressure and the petrol fuel doesn't gel it starts easier, especially when the temperatures start going below freezing
In my opinion; I prefer petrol for daily drivers, sedans, station wagons and so on that just carry people and some luggage, and are used mostly around town and such. Diesel is for vehicles that do long-distance driving, tow/carry a lot of stuff (or are generally just heavy) or toweable generators
What you will notice first is probably the less torque of the petrol, as you'll easily stall the engine when attempting to set off as you're used to being able to just let the clutch out and have the vehicle go. With petrol you'll have to use the throttle aswell at the same time (this applies to cars with "average commuter/small" engines that aren't very torquey. It won't be an issue if you're driving a V8 Mustang
David Thomas
Yea I have noticed that.
My Grande Punto with 1.9 JTD 130BHP engine drives the best between 1000-2000RPM but really loses it beyond 2500RPM. I was wondering if there is something wrong with it or if im doing something wrong.
Aiden Fisher
>It won't be an issue if you're driving a V8 Mustang
my dad has a 2014 and I took off in 3rd without realizing it lmao
Blake Walker
This is true. My driving instructor had a ~100hp diesel and even early on I hardly ever stalled it. My first car was an 80bhp 1.2 petrol and I stalled it quite a bit at first. Now I have a 140bhp petrol car I literally never stall
Fucking minibuses though man, I drove a (diesel) Transit minibus once and the clutch on that was fucking awful. Had a weird kick at the start of the bite point and actually applied some revs every time you brought the clutch up (apart from upshifts), which is a totally retarded feature.