A lot of you seem pretty short-sighted. Sure, maybe right now the fuel price differential doesn't justify purchasing a diesel (all other reasons aside). But what about when gas is $4 a gallon like it was a few months ago? Even if diesel costs $5, it's still worth it. You need to look at the price differential as a percentage rather than an absolute difference. The CDI gets about 35% better fuel economy than the its gasoline sibling and that's what counts. Where else can you get a full-size sedan that has the torque of a big V8 and the economy of a 4 banger? I don't know of any other. Having said that, I admit that if you don't need the huge torque and prefer a wider power band and don't care much about mileage, the gasoline versions look pretty attractive.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL