Clean Air Zone = ZTT going! What next?

[Ian G]

Honda Jazz..
Then when you've stopped laughing have a look at the specs... 2008 on would suit and ULEZ friendly..

Cheers Ian

[trikey]

The simple answer is to avoid all the places that are charging us to use our cars, I’m sick of all the excuses re ‘clean air’ or ‘low emission’

Why don’t they target all the fossil fueled power stations across the globe?

(Easier to target the motorist for some more money for the coffers)

[r44flyer]

Originally Posted by ardvark

What would they charge you if you use your car?

£8 per day. If I start one day and finish after midnight, whether that's two charges for that shift is as yet unclear.

[AndyN01]

Sorry to hear about this. I think Brum is the only City to be staying with the Emissions thing. As far as I know all the others have shelved the idea because of the present COVID issues.

I dallied with a different marque and bought a 2008 VW Passat with the 1.9 PD engine that's good for stellar mileages.

Solid, efficient, bland and boring - It'll be going soon as I've just bought another 75 .

If it's dependable transport you're after look at the Toyota Avensis.

We've had a Carina then an Avensis, both petrol, and they just went on, and on, and on....

A possible alternative is a Mazda 6 but avoid the diesels. SWMBO has a little petrol Mazda 2. Awesome thing for reliability. Now 10 years old and approaching 110K and the only non service item in the last 7 years is a brake switch .

Good Luck with the search.

Andy.

[Steamdrivenandy]

If you want a view across the market, use the filters on Autotrader. Don't specify a brand, but put in petrol, estate, the amount you want to pay, auto or manual or both and any other must have you can think of and you'll get a list of all the cars for sale that meet your spec. You may get some ideas to explore that way,

[Kevin Williams]

Another thought: is buying a cheap to run and, hopefully, cheap to buy, fairly modern city car an option for your budget? That would cover your commute, and you can use the Z for longer journeys away from the city centre and the LEZ...

[bikerdude666]

How about going for something electric for the work journeys, and keep the ZTT for everything else? If you've got somewhere to charge it at home.

[steve-45]

Other than a G-WIZ I can think of any 2nd hand electric car that would fit into the OP’s stated (£5000) budget.

[bikerdude666]

Originally Posted by steve-45

Other than a G-WIZ I can think of any 2nd hand electric car that would fit into the OP’s stated (£5000) budget.

I found a few on autotrader. Nissan Leaf, Citroen zero, peugeot ion, Renault fluenze, and for a little over £5000 there’s the Renault Zoe.

I did out of interest do a quick insurance quote though and the ones I tried were more expensive on insurance than the ZT!

[torque2me]

Originally Posted by GreyGoose

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For your budget I’d recommend a 1.6 after 2015, any diesel before this will be Euro 5 and not meet your needs for ULEZ.

I don't know if any Skoda offerings have a Skoda engine as I don't take much notice of this type of thing nowadays. Skoda was/is a VAG partner and virtually exclusively used VAG engines (as I say, things might be different now). Thus your seemingly Euro 5 engine might easily turn out to be Euro 3 (the great VAG magic wand). The good news (bad news for me) is that the UK government(s) have not re-categorised any of the VAG "clean" engines to the correct "dirty".

Kev