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Why?
A diesel car will be ~£1,000 more to buy than the equivalent petrol model.
More to tax as well, depending on the age of the car.
£1,000 buys a lot of petrol- that would get my stupidly thirsty petrol car £4,000 miles, and that's on super-unleaded.
A 1.8 litre petrol Mondeo (for example) will use the cheaper unleaded, and do many many more miles on a tank.
The only reason to go for a Diesel would be if he's going to do 10,000 miles a year, and I doubt that is going to be the case.