Diesel?
Diesel! 
Diesel is excellent - the torque is amazing and it matches an auto/DCT box perfectly....
The 1.7 CRDi produces 141bhp at 4000 RPM and 340 Torques between 1,750 and 2,500 RPM 
and bugger all at 4,100 rpm
except loads of NOx
Don't talk shite Steve... 
I don't
http://www.automobile-catalog.com/curve/2017/2307410/kia_sportage_2_0_crdi_2wd.html
All diesels drop off big time over 4,000 rpm, it's just a fact
And it is also a fact that you don't drive a diesel like you do a petrol...
So most likely mine will never see 4,000 rpm...
Why would you...? You have massive Torque (twice as much as the petrol version) at just 1,750 rpm - why would you thrash the arse off it?
Diesels are different, you drive them differently. I'd never had one till I came here 16 years ago but this is my second and the engine of choice... Plus the combined is 4.9l/100Km... 
Shouldn't you be watching the footy...?
HT in ET
Please make up your mind. You said I was talking shite saying the power disappears above 4,000 rpm and now you agree with me
No.
Re-read it and you will see you
are talking shite.
I didn't say diesel was about power I said it was about torque. Why did you not mention torque and just go with the silly, "
and bugger all at 4,100 rpm" straw man...?
Perhaps you have never driven one but I have for the past 16 years. They work perfectly in a auto or DCT - and in a manual too if you appreciate the difference between petrol and diesel, power and torque - which you clearly don't.
You clearly don't like diesel but don't diss them until you have lived with one.
