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I bought a 1.4tdi about 6 months ago as I was doing a lot of miles for work and didn't want to put thousands of miles on my other car.
Small - tick, efficient - big tick, quiet on motorways - X, comfortable on long drives - tick.
The diesel unit is a rumbling grumbling old thing. Its very efficient but not the most refined unit. The suspension on them is pretty harsh but it is fine tackling big motorway miles. Even at faster than most traffic levels of speeds its fine.
Ive done about 7k miles and its been faultless bar one rather large hiccup. An engine mounting/stabilising (?) bolt went for a wander and as a result the engine got a bit 'mobile' in the engine bay and severed the oil filler pipe and a power steering pipe. It wasn't ruinously expensive to fix in the end.
They go forever if well looked after. Mine has done 167k
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Audi A2. Bad idea?
Might need a second car and I'm looking for something small, efficient, quiet on motorways and comfortable for 3hr+ drives