The modern CRDi engines currently offered in today's new vehicles are a quantum leap from what was being offered only 8 or 10 years ago.
They are quiet, refined, quick and of course offer fabulous fuel economy.
Anybody who thinks that diesel engines are not the way forward are kidding themselves.
In UK and most of Europe now, diesels account for 50 or 60% of all new car sales (not hard to imagine with petrol/gasoline costing 100 peso/litre in UK).

I have owned various diesel engined cars now for 10 years including my present Pajero 2.5 version.

Unfortunately though my next car will be a gasoline engined Subaru Forester, but this is only because it is all I can afford in the compact SUV category (and it's a quality car with a tremendous pedigree), and the fact that Subaru don't make diesels anyway. If they made one, I'd buy it. No question.

CRDi v GAS - it's a no-brainer. CRDi wins by a mile.