Help find me a company car

crispy_chris

Hi all,

I'm in the fortunate position to be offered a company car courtesy of my job.

My car criteria is fairly simple, a decent sized boot (300l+), must come in at close to £20,000 (less is fine!) and must offer low co2 emissions (for obvious reasons).

On the down side, it needs to come from a fairly limited list of manufacturers: Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Mini, Renault, Toyota, Vauxhall, VW or Volvo.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I have no real experience of any of the manufacturers above (other than browsing their website) - although given it's a company car I guess reliability isn't so much as issue.

Thanks!

comeandgo

I have an audi A3 sport, I get just over 60 miles to the gallon and as we get 12p a mile for business miles, we pay our own fuel, it means every tank full I have a pound or two to use as free private miles. I don't know what size boot it has though.

w211

For CO2 emissions, I would've looked at the Toyota Prius, though it starts at £21,995. Looks like it has a big enough boot.

Iceweasel

You haven't given me enough info to work on meaningfully.

Are we talking about brand new cars here?

And how many hours a day are you going to spend in it?

How many miles a year?

daveyjp

It's always a shame when you can benefit from a company car, then the company give a restricted list of boring cars, with a few top end models which can just be bought for the budget, but will be poverty spec.

I don't envy you, as I would struggle to choose a car from those manufacturers with low CO2 and less than £20k.

ali-t

crispy_chris wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm in the fortunate position to be offered a company car courtesy of my job.

My car criteria is fairly simple, a decent sized boot (300l+), must come in at close to £20,000 (less is fine!) and must offer low co2 emissions (for obvious reasons).

On the down side, it needs to come from a fairly limited list of manufacturers: Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Mini, Renault, Toyota, Vauxhall, VW or Volvo.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I have no real experience of any of the manufacturers above (other than browsing their website) - although given it's a company car I guess reliability isn't so much as issue.

Thanks!

I don't think it costs less than £20k, closer to £25k probably but my company car is the Volvo v40 cross country and I love it. I only pay £60 in tax for it and £10 of that is for the metallic paint! The emissions are very low and £0 road tax. I love it and it feels very safe which is really important as I don't like driving much.

facade

Don't get a BMW, everybody will hate you, even other BMW drivers.
Don't get an Audi, everybody will hate you except possibly other Audi drivers.

Out of whats left, with someone else's money, I'd likely get a Mondeo, the poverty spec one is exactly £20,000.

Nodding_Donkey

w211 wrote: »

For CO2 emissions, I would've looked at the Toyota Prius, though it starts at £21,995. Looks like it has a big enough boot.

A Prius is ok as long as you are only doing town miles. On the motorway they drink petrol and they are a PITA on cold mornings.

crispy_chris

Iceweasel wrote: »

You haven't given me enough info to work on meaningfully.

Are we talking about brand new cars here?

And how many hours a day are you going to spend in it?

How many miles a year?

Thanks for the advice so far everyone, in answer to the questions above:

Yes, brand new. 2 hours a day, 4 days a week, plus weekends. Probably 12,000 miles a year - however as maintainance costs won't be an issue, presumably diesal is the way to go?

My wife quite fancies a Renault Captur, almost entirely because it has a decent boot size and comes in interesting colours. Almost any car will be an improvement on the 13 year old Yaris it's replacing I suspect