What would be a better vehicle to purchase to save fuel, hybrid or diesel?

What kind of car are you driving now? You should definitely get the Holden Commodore which offers the best bang for the buck.

i would say hybrid

hybrid definitely gets better gas mileage. it go with honda or toyota, honda for the small compact car, and toyota midsized

can’t get one in u.s.a.

Depends on where and how fast. If you are driving at slower speeds and in traffic, a hybrid may be a consideration, but you will have to drive it for at least 9 years at current prices before you break even on the higher purchase cost. On the other hand, if you drive at higher speeds with no traffic (I live in Nevada and I commute 120 miles a day round trip, all at 75 mph) then the hybrid will do you virtually no good over a basic 6 cyl car.

“If” most of that 50 miles is HiWay with few stops, get a deisel, but if you do lots of stop & go driving, go with the Hybrid.
Ed

I’m pretty sure that it would be hybrid because that is what they are always advertising about on TV.

Turbo Diesel Technology is far superior to Hybrid, despite all of the media hype. Volkswagen Golf TDI Diesels have been beating 50 MPG on the highway for the past 5 years. I never got my Hybrid past 38 in a commuting type environment. Diesels can burn B80 bio diesel, and with slight modifications burn SVO or straight vegetable oil. No hybrid can ever make that claim. Hybrids have a nasty battery pack that will eventually wear out and have to be disposed of (equal to 25 batteries of hazardous waste). The battery replacement will cost thousands of dollars. I sold mine when the Toyota dealer would not even estimate the cost.
Clean burning low sulfur diesel is the technology of the future and you can tell by the prices of used diesels here in California where they outlawed the diesel passenger cars in 2004.

It depends on where you live; some towns don’t have a proper mechanic who can work on hybrid cars, so trying to find some who can could be a pain in the butt and cost more to fix then a regular car.. Diesels are easy to work on and probably cheaper in the long run. But it all depends on you and your life style. Example do you haul a lot or just go back and forth.

A diesel like what mercedes benz offers gets about 30 to 40 mpg on the interstate, according to what friends have told me.
A hybrid gets that and more but your costs only really come out when you do alot of city driving. Either one costs more than what your probably willing to pay. Getting you a small, cheap, fuel efficent, gas powered import will pay off much quicker than any other option your looking at right now.

A Toyota Yaris gets 40MPG. Also you have to watch the hybrids like the escape hybrid wont back up a hill and ford gets there hybrid parts from Toyota but they are there components that don’t work as well as the parts that Toyota currently uses.

I would say get the Hybird