Green Car Recommendations

nalibz

jeannieblue wrote: »

And yeah, noticed how you dodged the question...:mad:

Are you a spy??

are you?

ps. people in my workplace that move around and bump into you are known is "fatties" (and they're not so quiet)

jeannieblue

nalibz wrote: »

are you?

ps. people in my workplace that move around and bump into you are known is "fatties" (and they're not so quiet)

MI4 and a half..

Have you bought it yet??

I find that the Pious is growing on me, not literally you understand. The tax is now £15 per annum (used to be £30), they are comfy and nice to drive and when put your foot down, they can really shift - as both engines come into play!

I couldn't afford one anyway, so will stay with my fairly new Focus, which i do enjoy driving anyway, it suits me and the colour is nice..

PhilL_3

Greenest car to seat 7? Depends how you view 'green' but I'd say a Landrover Defender

Graham_Devon

nalibz wrote: »

I've decided on the Toyota Prius T3, apparently its one of the best "medium size" cars and i know someone thats got one who is very happy with it!

(see how i dodged the question haha)

Beware. Seriously. Not only do the batteries cost the environment heavily to manufacture, but try going uphill in a prius, you may aswell drive a large engined V6 saloon car at that point.

Overall MPG out of a prius on a proper road test, conducted around london, the M25 and off onto an open motorway then A roads resulted in 37mpg overall. I know someone who has one and he was grinning from ear to ear about 42mpg. My dads V6 2.5 litre TDI get's more than that. That along with the manufacture of these car's makes it a terrible 'green' car. And wait till something goes wrong!

It's purely green spin, and people are falling for it left right and centre.

You'd be better with a 1.4 diesel engine, such as the Peugeot engine or the VW polo engine (and not even the bluemotion, unless, like the prius, you want to make some sort of statement about your green credentials, while the person in the Vectra TDCI is actually using less fuel than you) and hasn't caused mass damage to the environment in creating the batteries and then dumping them afterwards.

Then of course, something which they don't tell you, how many miles the car actually travels to be manufactured.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/03/which-is-greener-prius-or-hummer.html

Plus, the expected life of the car is an astonishing (scuse the pun), 100,000 miles! How is that green exactly?

jeannieblue

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Beware. Seriously. Not only do the batteries cost the environment heavily to manufacture, but try going uphill in a prius, you may aswell drive a large engined V6 saloon car at that point.

Overall MPG out of a prius on a proper road test, conducted around london, the M25 and off onto an open motorway then A roads resulted in 37mpg overall. I know someone who has one and he was grinning from ear to ear about 42mpg. My dads V6 2.5 litre TDI get's more than that. That along with the manufacture of these car's makes it a terrible 'green' car. And wait till something goes wrong!

It's purely green spin, and people are falling for it left right and centre.

You'd be better with a 1.4 diesel engine, such as the Peugeot engine or the VW polo engine (and not even the bluemotion, unless, like the prius, you want to make some sort of statement about your green credentials, while the person in the Vectra TDCI is actually using less fuel than you) and hasn't caused mass damage to the environment in creating the batteries and then dumping them afterwards.

Then of course, something which they don't tell you, how many miles the car actually travels to be manufactured.

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/03/which-is-greener-prius-or-hummer.html

Plus, the expected life of the car is an astonishing (scuse the pun), 100,000 miles! How is that green exactly?

Last part - life expectancy 100k? have you misread that? Originally the warranty was to be for 100k for it - have you got confused somewhere there?

There is no proof of the 'problems' in the future - granted its new, but there is no need to be dramatic! It is proving to be very reliable and economic - and no I'm not on commission, and it goes up hills very well!

It is proving to be very money saving about town - cos that's what they are all about - and for long journeys, nice and comfy and economical as many others.

Think you could be missing the point of them.

nic.aziz

I found this article today really interesting, naming and shaming the gas-guzzlers of the car market and crowning the greenest, most fuel-efficient cars of the year.

Check it out, really useful for this topic if you wanna know which cars are truly green

http://www.politics.co.uk/awareness-week/eta-green-transport-week/car-buyers'-guide-$1223782$2.htm