Do people still buy diesel cars in Nigeria? Say for example Peugoet 406 Diesel, although Diesel may be more expensive than Petrol at the filling station, but cars running on diesel engine tend to be 30- 40% more efficient on fuel than petrol engine. Yes, I recognise that Diesel has this bad reputation as being Noisy, Smoky, black fumes, Slow etc, but are people considering/aware that newer Diesel engine cars have to some extent solved majority of these problems. Eg most Diesel engines manufactured after Year 2001 have addressed most of these drawbacks of diesel engines.

So my question is this, do people still buy diesel cars in Naija or the overwhelming favourite is still Petrol engine cars?



p.s I am new here. Hope I haven't broken any rules because I haven't read them. I am also using the oppurtunity to greet everyone one on this forum. God bless Nigeria.

Unfortunately NO!. Diesel passanger cars are not too common in Naija. However, they are ABUNDANT in Ghana. Almost 50% of Ghanaian vehicles are diesel.

The mechanics in naija seems to be "afraid" of diesel cars. They dont know how to work on them

@Kunle, thanks for your contribution - Much appreciated. It will be good business to train up diesel mechanics, lol

and to add. Diesel cars are very cheap in europe. A diesel mechanic in passenger cars like the 406 will make serious money cos landing cost for a 2002 diesel 406 in nigeria is 910,000