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2 April 2010

Audi A6 TDIe

My Audi A6: you need the car’s frugal TDIe engine with the cost of fuel skyrocketing

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

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Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton

Ralph Morton is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Business Car Manager (now renamed Business Motoring). Ralph writes extensively about the car and van leasing industry as well as wider fleet and company car issues. A former editor of What Car?, Ralph is a vastly experienced writer and editor and has been writing about the automotive sector for over 35 years.

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