Love the diesels torque and lazy drive but would buy the 220 unless your on a serious fuel budget. The STtdci is a cracking car but buy wisely!


Why would I buy the 220? A slightly infantile answer below maybe but I'm a free revving petrolhead
Diesels stink and sound like tractors, also once past 5k revs they die!! Oh and fuel pump failure costs a bloomin fortune to sort.The latest BMW diesels are pretty good though
I have run two diesel models through work, a Golf GT170 which seemed faster than it actually was and a Focus 1.8tdci, both good cars in thier own right but insanely noisy and quite frankly boring. The initial wave of torque just dies off to quickly. The golf suffered from a blocked injector and required the whole top of the block be removed just to get to it!!

The days of cheap to buy diesels are nearing an end, manufacturers will all be reverting back to smaller engined turbo petrol units to comply with the new emissions regs, its going to cost a fortune to manufacture clean diesels in the future, I believe there is already an additive that needs to be added to modern diesels exhaust gasses just to get compliant with the latest Euro standard..

On a positive note the STtdci will feel like its pulling like a train in comparison to the ST24 third gear is especially good fun.