unless you are doing 20k a year, the diesel has no advantages. And thats coming from a Cupra TDi owner
Sorry, you are wrong there,
The diesel does have huge advantages. Around town its a quicker car makes driving in london so much better, you pay half price Tax, you get a lot more mpg thats a fact regardless of whether doing 10 miles or 40000 miles and you also have better residuals on them, 1.8t's drop like a stone as the market in general prefers the cupra Tdi.
I think the only people who can comment are those who have owned both a 1.8T and Tdi,
I would say the 1.8T is fun, its a great engine as anyone knows, it does seem to be limited on tuning as if you look on here most people go to a certain level and then there are very few who push the boundaries and go for huge turbos and uprated internals etc. Obviously its got a lovely noise. As for will a 1.8T destroy an R32, well it may keep with one but its not going to be a night and day difference. The R32 is still a nice unit and as a car as a whole it makes a good prospect, good residuals, cult status and also the 4wd. also one other thing to bear in mind is your comparing a tuned
Ibiza against a standard R32, straight away the reliability will be better ont he R32 and also if you tuned the R32 you would be lookign at supercar performance if turbo'd or supercharged. But for me comparing the R32 to an
ibiza is like comparing chalk and cheese.
As for the TDi, well you will never get away fromt he fact that its a diesel, its not quiet like some of the newer small capacity diesels or even the BMW lusty v6 diesels. its a common old dirty pd unit. But once on the move you won;t notice it anayway, its just never gonna be fun as a tunnel run car. Oh and its gonna smoke. But in this day and age with fuel creeping up ever closer to 1.20 a litre the tdi makes sense, coupled with the 120 quid tax and your on to a winner, it will hold its value and also you will find that due tot eh torque you will be less likely to spend money modding it. Motorway driving is great and as i was shocked by the cupra tdi is great on track days, i have bunged mine round the ring and it was very capable in stnadrd guise and DIFT used his on countless track days in the UK.
The cupra tdi is the oe to go for if you can push the price as has all the fancy bits already, like brakes, front moutn etc etc.
but to make the decision you need to get out there and test drive both. Your opinion might be unlike anyones on here as choice at the end of the day is a personal thing. Oh and if you can source from SEAT and you will get a years warranty on out of warranty cars, mine has paid for itself already the premium i paid over a private sale car.
