Guest kenpom Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Hi all I may be driving circa 100 miles per day round trip to commute. Can anyone advise if I will be better off with an lpg car or a small diesel such as a citroen C3. Do any makers have a small lpg car or is it mostly the bigger cars. Cheers Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Sydney Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 You can get LPG fitted to most cars (aftermarket) Personally I have not seen any small cars fitted with it - guess it doesn't make sense. 100 miles per day is not much and as petrol is still cheap in a small car you only be using 4-6 litres with Gas 6-8 litres so the price difference would take a long time to pay for the conversion As for Diesel at the moment its higher than petrol - again there is a surcharge of a couple of thousands on car price which takes a long while to pay off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenpom Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Thanks John that is interetsing. I was looking at a citroen C3 diesel which does 70mpg but maybe its better to buy a smaller petrol car which could be a lot cheaper. Do you have any idea of the conversion cost to lpg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest12551 Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 hi there.. just a thought for you .. i use a diesel xantia, here in scotland.. and use vegetable oil in my car.. works great .. even better than diesel....... at 70 p per ltr here. its 44p per ltr cheaper than diesel,, miles per gallon is the same but you do have to change fuel filter between 2-5 thousand miles (£4 per filter) so quite a saving.. i dont know how much it is over there but you want to look into it.. cheers john , marie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samozsoon Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Cany help with the LPG thing but my hubby did 100miles a day in he UK and had a Toyota Yaris Diesel that did about 70mpg too. Dont know about the cost difference between a Yaris and a C3 but you dont see many C3's about and I would think servicing/parts etc might be higher as a result. I see loads of Yaris's everyday (I now have one but petrol). He was very pleased with his Yaris. As already said diesel is more expensive than petrol too. Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Sydney Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Conversion cost Petrol to LPG in Australia is about $2500 - $3000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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