An oil and filter change costs no more than a petrol car. A fuel filter is £10 and needs changing no more often than spark plugs or HT Leads.
An engine is an engine, doesn't matter what fuel it runs on a valve will cost the same as will an injector or a fuel pump there is very little difference in repair costs
DPF issues and the expense that comes with them.
And the end of the world is nigh !!
Seriously though if used properly and not chugging around town for 5 years without ever doing more than 5 miles per trip, you'll never have a problem.
Our last mini did 70k miles not even aware if it ever needed to regenerate the DPF.
More expensive suspension parts due to the heavier weight.
A load of rubbish, same parts made in the same factory a spring is a spring and shock no matter what it's fitted to is still a shock the manufacturing process is the same.
If they can make too parts that are essentially the same that do the same thing, but one costs less to make, then they are more likely to put the retail price up on the cheaper part knowing that people are already prepared to pay the extra.
Often a few thousand more over the petrol engines to buy.
Yep and will sell for a lot more as well, a diesel will cost £1-2k more than its petrol equivalent which usually 10% more perhaps for an average car but ones it's a few years old it will still be worth 10% more than a petrol car of the same age and have saved a lot of money in fuel.
Usually a few pence more at the pumps.
A couple of pence at the pump is nothing when it's getting you 20mpg more on the road. Oh and of course much lower tax.
Think of the very first engines and cars. Such breakthroughs. They got better and better over time. But lately.. idiots have been changing and adding things that they clearly have no idea about .. tampering with things and making them more complex, and not always with benefits.. the real engineers and inventors would probably be ashamed to think of what they're doing.
Idiots ?? You mean the highly trained engineered and designers who have years of collective experience and expertise. The people with billions in R&D money to develop build and test the future generations of engines?
Go back 30 years and the engines of that time were cutting edge but by today's standards they're terrible. And real innovator or engineer from 30 years ago would be amazed what we're able to do now that they could never do with the technology of the time.