Many years ago, you could stick a bit of petrol in the diesel tank to stop it waxing. The additives here are sufficient though. The other winter, -15 and ok.

Modern diesels, with the ludicrously high pressure injection systems, you can't add petrol or there will be tears at invoice time.

The diesel particulate filters on cars built to Euro V spec capture the health issue size ranges fairly efficiently. Granted, the huge engines on lorries and some buses can't filter at that level due to back pressure and the volume of exhaust.

I have driven diesel cars for many years, since the first decent car size (Citroen BX!) and never looked back. In fact Mrs Musket recently bought a Mercedes SLK with the Diesel engine. The torque is stunning and I enjoy driving it every bit as much as the Porsche Cayman I toyed with buying but decided one of us had to have a sensible car....

Back to Hyundai, if they put that 2.2 from the Santa Fe in a saloon, they'd have a winner.

Q. They only come with the diesel option over here. No petrol variant available.



To be fair Bridge, if manufacturers had done as much R&D on petrols as they have on diesels in recent years, we might get somewhere. But I have a large car that goes when you ask it to, fairly briskly out of corners too, and I get 50mpg. For a car almost 200bhp that's not a reason for looking at petrol. The intelligent auto box keeps you in the "narrow" torque band.

I looked at your favourite car Volvo but both their diesels in the V70 or S80 are old now and compared to the BMW or Merc, it shows in gruffness.