Cars that are great in the snow with low uk car tax?

bushranger31

Hi all, can anyone recommend a used car that can easily deal with snowy and icey roads with low uk road taxes ? As a lot 4x4 have high road taxes , I would like a estate please help

harveybobbles

Octavia 4x4.
A4/A6 Quattro
Passat 4Motion.
V70 4x4 (Not to be confusesd with the more expensive XC70)

HappyMJ

bushranger31 wrote: »

Hi all, can anyone recommend a used car that can easily deal with snowy and icey roads with low uk road taxes ? As a lot 4x4 have high road taxes , I would like a estate please help

How snowy and icy? How long is the commute on ungritted roads and for how many days is it snowy and icy? Is it really worth it? I'd suggest a new Kia Picanto. No road tax and it's fine on icy roads just not at high speed but is any car? And...it doesn't lose much value over time. How long do you think you would keep the car for? 7 years and it will effectively have no residual value. Costs £7,700 divided out over 7 years would be about £2 per day. Bargain...cheaper than a bus fare...it is to me anyway and it's quite economic to run at 55MPG (they claim more though but I get 55MPG or about 4 litres/100km at £1.39 a litre it's about 6p a mile) so if you wanted to give the government as little as possible then it would be a good choice and it also has a 7 year warranty so if anything major goes wrong then they'll fix it...however others will have better ideas.

mikey72

Put winter tyres on, and most things are fairly decent.

skivenov

Agreed - I was running them on my old rear wheel drive transit a couple of years ago and I was going anywhere I wanted. People in this country over react and think you need to drive a hunvee all day everyday because it might rain.

You don't save money driving a 4x4.

Stigy

harveybobbles wrote: »

Octavia 4x4.
A4/A6 Quattro
Passat 4Motion.
V70 4x4 (Not to be confusesd with the more expensive XC70)

Good options.....not low on UK Road tax though!

What about, as a wildcard, a Panda 4x4? Not an estate....but i did say wildcard hehe

JQ.

mikey72 wrote: »

Put winter tyres on, and most things are fairly decent.

^^^^^This

Unless you're planning to drive through 3ft drifts then a Nissan Micra with snow tyres will get further than a Range Rover with summer tyres.

Trebor16

What do you consider as low road tax? Are you looking at vehicles that are lower than 150 g/km and in the band F which is £135 a year? These vehicles are in this band:-


Skoda Octavia 1.6TDi 4 x 4

Kia Sportage 2.0TDi 4 x 4

Hyundai IX35 2.0 TDi 4 x 4

Volvo XC60 2.4 AWD

Range Rover Evoque diesel

Audi A4 estate 2.0 TDi quarto

BMW X1 Xdrive 18D and 20D

Nissan Qashqai 1.6DCi 4 x 4

gilbert_and_sullivan

As said, any reasonable car with the correct tyres, preferably in sensible sizes, not elastic bands stretched round 20" wheels.

Interestingly the old artics i drove with tubed tyres were on 20" wheels, i delivered many standard Insignias and XF's on 20" wheels...think idiocy light have taken hold.

vikingaero

The best car I ever drove in the snow was a 1.4 Corsa B with skinny 175 section winter tyres.

Gloomendoom

mikey72 wrote: »

Put winter tyres on, and most things are fairly decent.

This

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

As said, any reasonable car with the correct tyres, preferably in sensible sizes, not elastic bands stretched round 20" wheels.

The elastic bands on 20" wheels will work just fine as long as they are snow rated... even with just RWD