my 1.8T eats diesel engines for breakfast! and still has room for a few petrol engines too
What was your qtr mile time Acid, 15.4 or something, pretty amazing if i remember
( all be it about half a second slower than my old Tdi and mine was a slow one!!)
if running costs are aside then best of the 2 would be the 180bhp petrol is what i would plump for. Although if you are saying standard cars drivability would push you to the TDi.
But if you are going to Mod the car then the Petrol is the way to go.
I have had 2 and a half years of mk4 ownership split betweent the 1.8t and the Tdi. I loved both. However overall faster car was the 1.8T
Also the sound for me is one huge thing i love the noise a petrol car makes although my Tdi did sound nice
I am now back on petol use, however since owning the cooper S ( which beats both by the way
especially on sound) i have only done 1800 miles in the last 4 months so fuel costs have not been an issue for me at all.