Business Car Manager: Editor’s Blog
OUCH! Just put fuel in my Audi A6: 120.9p a litre for diesel. That’s the effect of fuel duty going up. And why every business driver needs to consider driving more efficiently to conserve the fuel purchased; and consider driving a business car that’s economical, too.
My Audi A6 is fitted with a specially tuned version of Audi’s 2.0-litre diesel engine: it only has 136PS, but there’s plenty of low down torque (320Nm) – the ability of the engine to power forward from low revs. And very good economy: 53.3mpg.
Audi calls this engine TDIe – ‘e’ for efficiency. And this engine is now in the smaller Audi A4, which road tester Sam Hardy has just been testing. You can read the test here: Audi’s economical executive.
The A4 TDIe has the same 136PS engine but with a smaller body there’s 61.4mpg. Or, as Sam describes it, “supermini running costs”.
On Thursday I was talking to Paul Bulloch, boss of Concept Vehicle Leasing, about the car, particularly as the contract hire rental had come up as