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I'm on this team. The latest vehicles definitely produce less local emmisions, but their supply chain is worse than ever (haven't a source, but internet reckoning says so) as there is so much high technology and so many scarse materials.
If your using it for business/commute miles where no other useful choice, and decent miles (20-40k a year) great, its the ones (on my street), who get the latest toyota/lexus/porsche hybrid which is likely £50-90k vehicle, and only do 4k miles a year. Yes local emissions very low, very commendable, but globally, not so great.
My 20+ year old diesel lives again after an engine rebuild, runs as clean as it did when new now despite 300k on it (euro 2 though), don't use it for city as have bikes, legs, trains and a cargo bike. Also has less rust than a 2015 Focus, so win there as well!