Fair enough, but buses/lorry/trailers need the power on roads/highways like changkat jering, KLIA towards Nilai, Karak etc.
Ooh, offhighway trucks in construction sites would love more power, if only there is ease of maintenance on turbo petrol engines, which aren't available to construction equipments anyway.

What do you mean they need power?

What kinda power u referring to?

U want them to go 180kmh?

Excellent choice.
You should try both the Sportage GT with 2.0D and the Sorento with 2.2D engine.
The Sorento seems to be better equipped than the Sportage but at much higher price.

I also test drove the Sorento 2.2D with my in-laws, but they opted for the Carnival 2.2D while I chose for CX-5 2.2D.

Happy sorento 2.2 d owner here. Great power. 7 seats.

Car too big for my taste. Most of the time I drive alone

if don't have family, consider smaller car. i most of the time 3 people in sorento.

How's the noise? Older diesel car is noisy as hell even inside the car

Very quiet. So far, only 2 people managed to guess it is a diesel. The rest all think petrol until I say it is diesel.

Bawak 160km no fuss. kind of boring.

Power of diesel You drive mostly in city or highway? How's the FC?

FC for city, almost similar to petrol. lots of stop start traffic. About 11.2-11.5L/km. Once highway, you can get 5.8-6L/100km (if you stick to speed limit 110km). If you do 160km, then 6.4-6.7L/100km.

That's pretty good

One don't get 11.2~11.5L/km for a 2.2L petrol engine under heavy start-stop traffic. So milleage seems better for diesel.

not that heavy start-stop traffic. my suprima usualy 13.5L/100km for this same everyday route

Thanks all for this awesome read... Makes me even more confident to proceed with a diesel option. Unto my next.. Which is the better Euro 5 brand to pump?

In my opinion BHP

I see... Any particular reasons?

Because my uncle who drives lorry for long haul got told when he used BHP diesel it gave few more extra KM per full tank.

Bhp, new petronas e5. Not the old e5. Shell.

Okay.. Thanks.. Petron? Cuz I've got one closer to me.

replace what... depending on which car, better to ditch the PDF if there's no warning light problem, heck, even better if you ditch the EGR as well... i doubt msia have any emission regulations for private vehicles... but do it after warranty period

true to a certain extent... with the introduction of piezo injectors and common rail modern diesel has become more complex... not forgetting crappy parasite parts that are added due to western emission controls like EGR, PDF, urea cleaner, bla bla bla...

buses and lorry due to cost if not required do not add these parts in especially in this region, that's why you can see that their output are inferior..

bhp, skip petronas.... and avoid at all cost those nasty b10,b15,b20... bs biofuel added diesel..