War on Diesels

saker75

I am quite worried about how this. I cannot afford a new car and am not allowed to take credit because of my career interests. I buy at the low end of the market (£4k) because it's all I can afford. I can't imagine any scheme allowing me to buy a £4k petrol car instead.

NBLondon

motorguy wrote: »

I would say the likes of Dacia will benefit greatly from this.

Punt in your old !!!!!! Clio diesel worth £500, get £4,500 off a new Dacia @ £5995.

That's what happened last time round... If you were in the market to buy something anyway and had something on it's last legs you got a better deal than by trading it in. If you had something just under the age limit - you lost out by not getting scrappage and increased VED and lower trade-in value.


Wonder if you could design a super-hybrid that ran electric in cities and diesel on motorways? If you did have mixed use - that could be a best of both worlds solution.

motorguy

saker75 wrote: »

I am quite worried about how this. I cannot afford a new car and am not allowed to take credit because of my career interests. I buy at the low end of the market (£4k) because it's all I can afford. I can't imagine any scheme allowing me to buy a £4k petrol car instead.

Why?

If you think they're going to surcharge old diesels going in to cities, and that impacts you then either

(a) buy a younger diesel thats not impacted
(b) buy an economical petrol car?

Oldfatgrumpy

caprikid1 wrote: »

Sorry but diesel owners have had their £3500 in reduced road tax. The rest of us have subsidised them. Why should they get further money from the tax payer.

Wow, tax on petrol cars must be an astronomical cost if that's true. Tax on my diesel car costs me £280+ per year. It's 13 years old so I guess to have been £3500 cheaper than a petrol car over that period suggests that a petrol car's tax would have been more expensive than that by £3500/13 per year, i.e. £269 more, in other words £(269 +280)= around £550 per year. That's more tax than I can justify for my modest annual mileage, so I guess I won't be replacing my diesel with a petrol car after all.