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Originally Posted by Matt  Less, and heres why. The average driver puts about 15,000 miles on his or her car a year.
If your spending 3$ per gallon of gas (average CA cost), you can take 15,000 and devide it by its mpg. Then multiply that number by 3$.
So 335d: Yearly cost is roughly 1184$
335i: yearly cost is 1500$
which brings us to a total gas savins of 316$ per year if you own a 535d. Now, we know that the cost of a 335d is £2055 more than a 335i, which is roughly $2656 USD, and so we devide that number by $316-and we come with a total of 8.4 years to justify the cost of the 335d with gas savings-never mind interest rates that are higher in the diesel version as well. |
Depends on price of diesel vs. petrol fuel witch varies from country to country due to taxation policies. Also some countries actually offer incetives, tax reduction for diesel cars/owners.
Also, if petrol is 3 $ in USA, it costs between 4 $ to 9 $ across Europe. If it's a better choice people will go diesel.