ADAC Test 2012 diesel heater driver shiver more - Nissan Juke GTR

By Robin Hornig Chilling news for diesel drivers: in let the diesels their drivers tend to be longer than the gasoline sitting in the cold. The cars in the study took between nine minutes and half an hour, was heated to its interior with an outside temperature of minus ten degrees to 22 degrees Celsius. Otto engines were generally the front. So it was with VW Polo Gasoline eight minutes faster than in the comparable muckelig diesel variant. Also the winner of the comparison has a gasoline engine under the hood: the Mercedes E 500 Coupe. After nine minutes to take the inmates were his thick winter jacket. Tail light and thus the absolute frostbite Seat Ibiza is in the diesel variant. Almost 30 minutes it took the little Spaniard. Size does not matter.

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Why a diesel car needs for heating more time, the ADAC said this: “The diesel principle makes use of the energy contained in fuel better, which is reflected in lower fuel consumption heat is a waste product here, to a lesser extent thus.. The interior is mostly warm later. ” Look at the Gallery , which models you get up to temperature and which ones you catch cold.Well equipped

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