Petrol​ or Diesel

[wilko]

It depends entirely on what you want, and what you can afford. My turbo will do 18k miles in year 1 and I'll take the £20k depreciation hit and the £5k fuel bill on the chin as i can afford it, and I enjoy it enough to justify it.
If you can afford it, spec the hell out of a turbo, and do as many miles as you like. If you're on a budget, need to keep finance payments low, then go low spec diesel and don't rack up too many miles.
No right awnser, as it depends entirely on you finances and man maths

[Col Lamb]

Can I suggest that you do more research into residual values?

An SD is currently looking to depreciate greater than a petrol variant, hence the extra running costs of a petrol variant will likely be more than covered by the difference in depreciation

[martin5789]

No one can predict residuals but it seems to me that SD is likely to suffer more than other Macan models. There are massively more of them and I don't think anti diesel sentiment is going away any time soon. I had an SD ordered briefly but changed the order to a Turbo. The whole anti diesel thing was part of the thinking. Residuals another but I ended up over speccing the turbo so I'll probably end up worse off overall.

My 330d has taken a massive hit in the last three months and I bet it's not the only diesel thus affected. Plus SD is now available from stock which can't help matters.

Sorry that was a ramble....

[Frenchy]

petrol

[happy days]

Depends where you live.

Here in NI, petrol cars are in a total minority - looking around the work car park here and my 718 is the only petrol car (apart from a colleague's motorbike!) out of 40 or so cars. You would often see second hand petrol powered cars sitting on a forecourt for months and months as there's virtually no market for them, even at a price!

[Macandriver]

I concur with the above comments on journey type. If you do mostly short journeys (e.g. 5-10 miles) then petrol. If you do longer journeys then diesel. My old diesel car (not a Porsche) kept failing MOT on emissions because we are in the short journey camp.

One other factor that hasn't been mentioned is sound. Turn the key in the ignition in both and the petrol sounds like a Porsche, however the diesel is quieter. I love the sound of my petrol Macan.

[Macananon]

Turn the key in the ignition in both and the petrol sounds like a Porsche

I thought the sound of a Porsche was that of a flat 6 not a V6.

[ScotMac]

The diesel is the most popular Macan model and I don't see that changing unless we get a decent hybrid model.

[goron59]

Turn the key in the ignition in both and the petrol sounds like a Porsche

I thought the sound of a Porsche was that of a flat 6 not a V6.

Nah, the V6 sounds little like the flat 6 in the 911, turbo or NA.

I don't like the sound of the flat 6 (yea, I know heretic), but it is at least quite charismatic.
The V6 (petrols) sound a bit bland.

Unlike me to be nice about the SD , but in the Macan range, I think the sound of the diesel is probably the best vs expectation.

[Johnsmith]

Personally, I think anyone would be crazy to spend £50k+ on a diesel vehicle.

The government have said to think very carefully before buying a diesel, and they're looking at the appropriate tax treatment

Paris want them banned

Even regional cities are looking to charge them for entering, and charge extra for parking

Note - he did not say think carefully about buying a pre-EURO 6 diesel, just diesel full stop.

This is going to be a major storm in the coming years. The politics will be a nightmare with regional labour cities playing games against a conservative government.

At this cost level, depreciation is your biggest expense.

Other than entirely understandable self preservation for those with diesels, why take the huge risk of going near a diesel even if doing high mileage as you're a political punchbag, further hindered by green peace etc taking the government to court to ensure action.

People too often only hear what they want to hear, but the reality of this diesel issue is very serious.