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I fancy a Luxury Barge for my next car, however I object to paying £600+ in Road Tax as I think it is rip off, considering all the holes in the roads around here.

So have been looking at these cars with diesel engines in them, as well as some hybrids.

But, I do not do much mileage these days, say less than 15K/year, I suppose getting a diesel would not be worth it because it would not get warm enough to clear the filters and so build up possible issue?.

Is it still the case that you buy a diesel if you do many many more miles per year?

Oh! forgot looking at older cars in the sub £25K bracket.
 
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The differential is much reduced these days. I have had 50mpg easily out of a Mondeo estate and get circa 50-60 from my diesel Mazda 6 estate. When you say luxury barge, are you thinking Range Rooney etc? You need to go diesel with them to get any remotely tolerable mpg. I have no idea about luxury saloons though a la Merc, Lexus, Jag.
 
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I fancy a Luxury Barge for my next car, however I object to paying £600+ in Road Tax as I think it is rip off, considering all the holes in the roads around here.

So have been looking at these cars with diesel engines in them, as well as some hybrids.

But, I do not do much mileage these days, say less than 15K/year, I suppose getting a diesel would not be worth it because it would not get warm enough to clear the filters and so build up possible issue?.

Is it still the case that you buy a diesel if you do many many more miles per year?

Oh! forgot looking at older cars in the sub £25K bracket.
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Our Skoda 1.9 does around 51mpg, now has 193K on the clock and is 17 years old. It does around 10K miles per year.
Sub £25K, something like this would be pretty good.

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A nice Audi A6 will fall into the lux barge category but with 2.0 TDI engine it should do at least 50mpg like they all do. You do at least one longer trip a week surely. Then it's fine. For town only hybrid is better but for that don't buy vag with their 2nd rate petrol engines
 
Years ago I decided to by a big fat saloon as I'd never had one and I ended up wandering around the used car park at a Jaguar dealer. I spotted a silver auto 4ltr S Type and I thought I'd give it a test drive and I loved it. At the time it was 3 years old and about half new price, you can still find them these days.

Maybe give one at least a sideways look?
 
Knikki said:
I fancy a Luxury Barge for my next car, however I object to paying £600+ in Road Tax as I think it is rip off, considering all the holes in the roads around here.

So have been looking at these cars with diesel engines in them, as well as some hybrids.

But, I do not do much mileage these days, say less than 15K/year, I suppose getting a diesel would not be worth it because it would not get warm enough to clear the filters and so build up possible issue?.

Is it still the case that you buy a diesel if you do many many more miles per year?

Oh! forgot looking at older cars in the sub £25K bracket.
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All should be £360 or less tax if older than 2017 but would need to double check:

Jaguar XJ 3.0 V6 supercharged would be my first pick
Audi S6 4.0 V8 would be a stretch to class the regular A6 as a luxury barge but the S version adds that little something special and fantastic AWD system
BMW 750i V8
S-Class S500
Volvo S90 although a little underpowered and you'll be paying moderately higher tax due to the list price of the car.

Lexus LS460 also comes to mind, but it's £615 tax and quite expensive still. This one is suspiciously low priced... link

You could actually get a 2013 Porsche Panamera in budget with reasonably low mileage and is a much bigger car than it looks. 3.6 V6 keeps it in the lower tax bracket and a lot of VW/Audi parts are cross compatible with Porsche, so not necessarily a brave pill.
 
A friend has a relatively newish Jag diesel - 55mpg on a run at 130kph through France compared to about 48mpg from my Skoda Karoq.

I've had diesels for the last 25 years. I'd question the wisdom if you drive in town much, but 10k per year is completely fine provided you get a decent run in a few times per year.
 
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The smaller Jag Diesels feel and sound quite rough compared to the V6 IME. They are more economical though! On a long motorway run, I get around 43 MPG at a speed that's unlikely to attract a flash from either a camera or a BMW!
 
HMMMM thanks for the info.

There are few above that have peaked my interest so now off to Autotrader :)
 
I'm on my second XF 3 litre Diesel. Only changed because I wanted the Sportbrake version (estate).
 
If load lugging is of interest, consider also the E-Class estate. I did get > 33% off when I bought new 4 years ago (I suspect deals like that are not attainable now ;) ) and the vehicle excise duty supplement came as a nasty surprise. But, it has been supremely efficient for me, I can achieve 70mpg on a run (more typically, 60+) and from this year VED drops to an acceptable £140-ish. Plus, you can throw an inordinate amount of Essential Luggage (cf: Mrs Ham) as required.
 
hands up here for the Honda CR-V plenty of room and adaptability comfortable to drive can be had in the older 2.2 diesel or the newer more expensive 1.6 versions .. I have the former a genuine 42m.p.g .. all the extras built in sat nav , cruise control ,4 wheel drive .. I previously had a mondeo that told me it was doing 50mpg + but in all honesty I seem to put less in this beast .
avoid the smaller MPV look alikes such as the quashqi etc as they have problems galore
 
I'm enjoying my Evoque and I found out on Saturday that it has surprisingly good brakes.
 
Not completely convinced that a CRV is exactly a 'luxurious' car, like a Jag or range rover or even a Skoda Kodiak.
 
I've had two CRV's, 3rd Gen and 4th Gen. Infotainment always felt a generation behind others. Generally decent cars but not what I would call luxury. Honda Legend would be more towards that, unfortunately rather old now.
 
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